Damion Dooley
Damion Dooley
Graphic diagrams of process by objective and mechanism are here (since the paper is published). Highest level:  By Mechanism:  By Objective:  Food Processing Objective:
A note that https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/chmo may be a good home for process model components.
News about CHMO - apparently no longer maintained! So not an option. OBI is receptive to taking upper level "material processing" terms. They would still leave terms like "sautee, fry,...
- Palatable / unpalatable is great! Note about instances/vs class: indeed we may find these terms are only used in the instance level due to personal preference. On the other...
Updated diagram bu still have to sort out definitions 
About comestible - is it limited to human beings being the consumer? I think we might as well keep things general so that we can cover food for domesticated animals...
@oldskeptic above I mention "palatable food" and "unpalatable food", and indeed anti-freeze is neither of those. I agree it is palatable so we could have an additional "palatable material" and...
Well, I see now that "**contaminated food material**" is a good class to have, where bacterial (e.g. bad E-coli) or chemical contamination occurs. But in contrast, it would be good...
The latest diagram avoids the word "inedible", though that can arise as a broad or exact synonym in vocabulary if people want. @maweber-bia that makes your definition of it match...
Since I just signed up for ChatGPT, I thought I'd checkup on what ChatGPT 4 thinks about this. At first I was ready to dismiss it as sort-of on target,...