has characteristic food food material by characteristic nutritious food 2024-07-10T21:11:52Z Food which has a nutritional food role. Note that ChEBI "food", appearing in this term's equivalency axiom, is actually a role which has this definition: "A physiological role played by any substance of either plant, animal or artificial origin which contains essential body nutrients that can be ingested by an organism to provide energy, promote growth, and maintain the processes of life." In BFO terms this would best be cast as a disposition.