Metadata field: diet
Studies:
- Tong_2022_buffalo (695 samples)
- Xie_2021_ruminants (370 samples)
- Youngblut_2020_animal (285/289 samples)
- Shaffer_2021_EMP500 (193/817 samples)
- 35 other studies (1228 samples)
Scope: human, animal
Type: string
Description: Information about subject's diet at the time of sample
collection (eg. omni, vegetarian, vegan). As this can be multitude of
values in practise, we here standardize to a few main classes that are
valid for either infants or adults, and the full information is in the additional
metadata field diet_full.