Gale Food, Cooking and Nutrition Thesaurus

The Gale Food, Cooking and Nutrition Thesaurus is a subset of the master Gale Health and Medicine Thesaurus in the narrower domain of foods and beverages consumed by humans or animals; the noncommercial production, processing, cooking, and serving of those foods and beverages, and the related human or animal nutrition, including the non-medical study of nutrition and the non-medical application of nutritional principles. It includes all substances, natural and artificial, that are considered to be or are marketed or used as nutritional supplements as well as 'health foods' and all other foods, food products, and beverages that are thought to be therapeutic or health promoting or are marketed as such. It does not include terms whose scope is limited to the commercial production, processing, transportation, handling, marketing, or serving of human or animal foods, beverages, and related products, but can include terms whose meanings encompass both commercial and non-commercial activities. All thesaural relationships (BT/NT, RT, USE/UF) are included, and some terms have scope notes. The thesaurus contains 1,393 preferred terms/concepts (2019) and is continually updated.