diet descriptive diet A diet which represents food types or items consumed in the regular course of eating and drinking by an individual or population over some duration of time. The food entities in a descriptive diet may be characterized by kind of diet as well as other (food survey or log) parameters such as quantity, time, frequency or duration of aggregate consumption, meal type and/or setting. https://github.com/FoodOntology/joint-food-ontology-wg requires discussion