{
  "id": "food.nutrient",
  "term": "food",
  "sense": "nutrient",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "food",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a product that can be used for energy",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "energy.capacity",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "products.goods",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the matter.substance and energy.capacity interact in a structure that can be used",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sustained energy release",
      "metabolic usability",
      "organizational stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A potato provides 77 kcal per 100g, fueling cellular respiration in humans.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1973 oil crisis triggered energy rationing, revealing food's dependence on fossil-fuel-powered agriculture.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Curiosity rover's radioisotope thermoelectric generator converts plutonium decay into electricity, sustaining instrument operation.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "food",
    "foods"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added products.goods and use.application to components to align with definition. Definition remains correct and minimal, but relied on omitted concepts. No factual error; definition does not need rewo"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-food.nutrient"
}