Food Classification

Food Classification
 
Class
Type
Group
Food
Plant origin Cereal grains and
legumes/pulses
Cereal grains Rice (brown rice)
Wheat
Barley
Rye
Corn (maize, including pop corn and sweet corn)
Buckwheat
Other cereal grains
Legumes/pulses Soybeans, dry
Beans, dry (including butter beans, cowbeans (red
beans), lentil, lima beans, pegia, sultani, sultapya and
white beans)*
Peas
Broad beans
Peanuts, dry
Other legumes/pulses
Vegetables Potatoes Potato
Taro
Sweet potato
Yam
Konjac
Other potatoes
Sugar sources Sugar beet
Sugarcane
Cruciferous vegetables Japanese radish, roots (including radish)
Japanese radish, leaves (including radish)
Turnip, roots (including rutabaga)
Turnip, leaves (including rutabaga)
Horseradish
Watercress
Chinese cabbage
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kale
Komatsuna (Japanese mustard spinach)
Kyona
Qing-geng-cai
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Other cruciferous vegetables
Composite vegetables Burdock
Salsify
Artichoke
Chicory
Endive
Shungiku
Lettuce (including cos lettuce and leaf lettuce)
Other composite vegetables
Liliaceous vegetables Onion
Welsh (including leek)
Nira
Garlic
Asparagus
Multiplying onion (including shallot)
Other liliaceous vegetables
Umbelliferous vegetables Carrot
Parsnip
Parsley
Celery
Mitsuba
Other umbelliferous vegetables
Solanceous vegetables Tomato
Pimiento (sweet pepper)
Egg plant
Other solanceous vegetables
Cucurbitaceous vegetables Cucumber (including gherkin)
Pumpkin (including squash)
Oriental pickling melon (vegetable)
Water melon
Melons
Makuwauri melon
Other cucurbitaceous vegetables
Legumes vegetables Peas, immature (with pods)
Kidney beans, immature (with pods)
Green soybeans
Mushrooms Button mushroom
Shiitake mushroom
Other mushrooms
Miscellaneous vegetables Spinach
Okra
Ginger
Bamboo shoots
Vegetables not categorized
in the above-listed vegetable
groups.
Other vegetables
Fruits Citrus fruits Unshu orange, pulp
Citrus natsudaidai , pulp
Citrus natsudaidai , peels
Citrus natsudaidai , whole
Lemon
Orange (including navel orange)
Grapefruit
Lime
Other citrus fruits
Pome fruits Apple
Japanese pear
Pear
Quince
Loquat
Stone fruits Peach
Nectarine
Apricot
Japanese plum (including prune)
Mume plum
Cherry
Berries Strawberry
Raspberry
Blackberry
Blueberry
Cranberry
Huckleberry
Other berries
Grape Grape
Assorted tropical and
sub-tropical fruits
Japanese persimmon
Banana
Kiwifruit
Papaya
Avocado
Pineapple
Guava
Mango
Passion fruit
Date
Fruits not categorized in the
above-listed fruit groups.
Other fruits
Nuts and seeds Oil seeds Sunflower seeds
Sesam seeds
Safflower seeds
Cotton seeds
Rapeseeds
Other oil seeds
Ginkgo nut
Chestnut
Pecan
Almond
Walnut
Other nuts
Seed for beverages Coffee beans
Cacao beans
Spices and herbs Spices Sansho (Japanese peper)
  Other spices (refer to all spices, except horseradish,
wasabi (Japanese horseradish) rhizomes, garlic,
peppers chili, paprika, ginger, lemon peels, orange
peels (including navel orange), yuzu (Chinese
citron) peels and sesame seeds)
Herbs Spearmint
Peppermint
Other herbs (refer to all herbs, except watercress,
nira, parsley stems and leaves, celery stems and
leaves)
Tea Tea (green, black, oolong and wulung tea)
Tea (black, oolong and wulung tea)(except
unfermented tea)
Hop Hop
Animal origin Terrestrial mammals Terrestrial mammals, muscle Cattle, muscle
Pig, muscle
Other terrestrial mammals, muscle (all terrestrial
mammals, except cattle and pig)
Sheep, muscle
Horse, muscle
Deer, muscle
Goat, muscle
Terrestrial mammals, fat Cattle, fat
Pig, fat
Other terrestrial mammals, fat
Sheep, fat
Horse, fat
Deer, fat
Goat, fat
Terrestrial mammals, liver Cattle, liver
Pig, liver
Other terrestrial mammals, liver
Sheep, liver
Horse, liver
Deer, liver
Goat, liver
Terrestrial mammals, kidney Cattle, kidney
Pig, kidney
Other terrestrial mammals, kidney
Sheep, kidney
Horse, kidney
Deer, kidney
Goat, kidney
Terrestrial mammals, edible
offals
Cattle, edible offal (refers to all body parts, except
muscle, fat, liver and kidney)
Pig, edible offal
Other terrestrial mammals, edible offal
Sheep, edible offal
Horse, edible offal
Deer, edible offal
Goat, edible offal
Terrestrial mammals, milk Milk
Poultry Poultry, muscle Chicken, muscle
Other poultry animals, muscle (all poultry animals,
except chicken)
Duck, muscle
Turkey, muscle
Poultry, fat Chicken, fat
Other poultry animals, fat
Duck, fat
Turkey, fat
Poultry, liver Chicken, liver
Other poultry animals, liver
Duck, liver
Turkey, liver
Poultry, kidney Chicken, kidney
Other poultry animals, kidney
Duck, kidney
Turkey, kidney
Poultry, edible offals Chicken, edible offal
Other poultry animals, edible offal
Duck, edible offal
Turkey, edible offal
Poultry, eggs Chicken, eggs
Other poultry, eggs
Aquatic animals Fish Salmoniformes (such as salmon and trout)
Anguilliformes (such as eel)
Perciformes (such as bonito, horse mackerel,
mackerel, sea bass, sea bream and tuna)
Tetraodontiformes (such as globefish)
Other fish
Shellfish Crustaceans
Shelled molluscs
Other aquatic animals Other aquatic animals (all aquatic animal, except
fish, crustaceans and shelled molluscs)
Bee products Honey (including royal-jelly)
Mineral waters Mineral waters (natural mineral waters and bottled/
packaged drinking waters)