Carnitine A0F4N Extended term * RPC Derivatives/ ingredients **

The group includes Carnitine used in fortified foods and dietary supplements. Carnitine is a quaternary ammonium compound biosynthesized from the amino acids lysine and methionine. It is required for the transport of fatty acids from the intermembraneous space in the mitochondria, into the mitochondrial matrix during the breakdown of lipids (fats) for the generation of metabolic energy. The part consumed/analysed is by default the whole or a portion of it representing the observed heterogeneity.

Extended term (Level of detail)

A fine-grained food term, suitable as a base term in a FoodEx2 code. ↩

RPC Derivatives/ ingredients (Type of Term)

A food made from a single commodity by a process that changes its nature, such as flour from grain or oil from seeds. ↩

Implicit facet descriptors *

Descriptors marked are not part of "Zoonoses hierarchy" and open in their own default hierarchy.

Facet descriptor

Implicit facet descriptors are characteristics a food already implies, so they are left out of its FoodEx2 code. For example, "smoked salmon" (A02KF) implies the facet descriptor "smoking" (F28.A07JV); because the term itself already conveys it, it is not added to the code. ↩

Narrower terms

These are child terms of the current term, "Carnitine".

Carnitine has no narrower terms in Zoonoses hierarchy.

Sibling terms

Other terms sharing the same "Co-factors to metabolism" parent term.

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16 Mar 2015, 23:19
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Last update
15 Apr 2017, 16:24