eating

ingestion of food to provide for all organisms their nutritional or medicinal needs
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eating

Summary

eating draws 28 Wikipedia views per month (eating_behavior category, ranking #2 of 2).[1]

Key Facts

  • eating followed cooking[2].
  • eating followed hunting[3].
  • eating followed food and drink preparation[4].
  • eating followed butchering[5].
  • The location of eating was kitchen[6].
  • The location of eating was restaurant[7].
  • The location of eating was dining room[8].
  • eating took place at workplace[9].
  • eating is a type of ingestion[10].
  • eating is part of activity[11].
  • eating is used for pleasure[12].
  • eating is used for homeostasis[13].
  • eating is used for nutrition[14].
  • eating's Commons category is recorded as Eating[15].
  • eating is the opposite of excretion[16].
  • eating is the opposite of drinking[17].
  • eating is the opposite of starvation[18].
  • eating's has cause is recorded as hunger[19].
  • eating's has cause is recorded as hunger[20].
  • eating's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[21].
  • eating's topic has template is recorded as Template:Feeding[22].
  • eating's has effect is recorded as satiety[23].
  • eating's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C86069[24].
  • eating's different from is recorded as grazing[25].
  • eating's uses is recorded as human digestive system[26].

Body

Definition and Type

eating is a type of ingestion[10]. Recorded opposite of include excretion[16], drinking[17], and starvation[18].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include pleasure[12], homeostasis[13], and nutrition[14]. eating is part of activity[11].

Why It Matters

eating draws 28 Wikipedia views per month (eating_behavior category, ranking #2 of 2).[1] eating has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] eating is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · VGPaleontologist · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ [[Property:P1542]]: [[Q1562684]]"
  2. 3d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 92
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Food and drink
    Part of → activity
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'bcl', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cdo'
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||guc, nqo */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  3. 26d ago · A.pavliashvili · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → hunger, hunger
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P828]]: [[Q3535686]]"
  4. 7w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q14820887]]"
  5. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → food-consumption
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: food-consumption, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925851|food consumption (#289925851)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  6. 10w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/Eating
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Concepts/Eating, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  7. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008482-prijem-potravy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008482-prijem-potravy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  8. 18w ago · O Breixo · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 71687
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P13613]]: 71687"
  9. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Follows → cooking, hunting, food and drink preparation +1
    Class of object(s) of occurrence → food
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14372, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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