DietarySupplement

Defined in the health-lifesci.schema.org extension.
Canonical URL: http://schema.org/DietarySupplement

Thing > MedicalEntity > Substance > DietarySupplement

A product taken by mouth that contains a dietary ingredient intended to supplement the diet. Dietary ingredients may include vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, glandulars and metabolites.

Usage: Between 10 and 100 domains

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'DietarySupplement' is mentioned in extension layer: health-lifesci

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from DietarySupplement
`activeIngredient`	Text	An active ingredient, typically chemical compounds and/or biologic substances.
`background`	Text	Descriptive information establishing a historical perspective on the supplement. May include the rationale for the name, the population where the supplement first came to prominence, etc.
`isProprietary`	Boolean	True if this item's name is a proprietary/brand name (vs. generic name).
`legalStatus`	DrugLegalStatus or MedicalEnumeration or Text	The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply.
`manufacturer`	Organization	The manufacturer of the product.
`maximumIntake`	MaximumDoseSchedule	Recommended intake of this supplement for a given population as defined by a specific recommending authority.
`mechanismOfAction`	Text	The specific biochemical interaction through which this drug or supplement produces its pharmacological effect.
`nonProprietaryName`	Text	The generic name of this drug or supplement.
`proprietaryName`	Text	Proprietary name given to the diet plan, typically by its originator or creator.
`recommendedIntake`	RecommendedDoseSchedule	Recommended intake of this supplement for a given population as defined by a specific recommending authority.
`safetyConsideration`	Text	Any potential safety concern associated with the supplement. May include interactions with other drugs and foods, pregnancy, breastfeeding, known adverse reactions, and documented efficacy of the supplement.
`targetPopulation`	Text	Characteristics of the population for which this is intended, or which typically uses it, e.g. 'adults'.
Properties from Substance
`activeIngredient`	Text	An active ingredient, typically chemical compounds and/or biologic substances.
`maximumIntake`	MaximumDoseSchedule	Recommended intake of this supplement for a given population as defined by a specific recommending authority.
Properties from MedicalEntity
`code`	MedicalCode	A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.
`guideline`	MedicalGuideline	A medical guideline related to this entity.
`legalStatus`	DrugLegalStatus or MedicalEnumeration or Text	The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply.
`medicineSystem`	MedicineSystem	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
`recognizingAuthority`	Organization	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
`relevantSpecialty`	MedicalSpecialty	If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant.
`study`	MedicalStudy	A medical study or trial related to this entity.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text	A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription`	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`image`	ImageObject or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage`	CreativeWork or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity.
`name`	Text	The name of the item.
`potentialAction`	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs`	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Schema Version 3.1