Support for ingredient grouping

[pj83]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Some recipes have multiple parts to them (example here and therefore ingredients are grouped for individual parts of the meal. Currently i just have an additional ingredient line with ingredient group name in, but this makes seeing the grouping harder.

Describe the solution you'd like
Ability to group ingredients for specific parts of a recipe. eg Main meal: ingredient1, 2 & 3. Sauce: ingredient 4 & 5)

Describe alternatives you've considered
n/a

[seyfeb]

I think this has been discussed before, e.g., in #285 . Unfortunately, although I’d really like to see this feature, it seems not to be supported by schema.org.

Adding an ingredient separating the groups with an ingredient with ## in front of the text allows at least an optical separation.

## Main meal
200 g noodles
...
## Sauce
 80 g tomatoes
...

[christianlupus]

Just for reference:

• Should recipeIngredient be a member of an array called ingredients or recipeIngredients? · Issue #2628 · schemaorg/schemaorg
• Specify sub items ingredient, amount, note for each ingredient in Recipe · Issue #882 · schemaorg/schemaorg

[christianlupus]

I opened the PR schemaorg/schemaorg#2738 against Schema.org. If they accept it, there should be an option to group the ingredients accordingly. Until that is decided, I suggest to postpone this issue here. Then, we can decide how to proceed further.

[tj551955]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm sorry, that I didn't search the issues for this, so I could have found your answers already.

[seyfeb]

I found an example that uses grouped ingredients. I don’t know if this conforms to the schema.org standard, but in this form we currently cannot import the recipe instructions at all:

https://leitesculinaria.com/7759/recipes-pasteis-de-nata.html#recipe

[christianlupus]

I just looked at it. The named recipe does only show in the website the ingredient grouping. The JSON has a straight list of ingredients.

I have not tested it but the structure is sort of awkward they use for the JSON+LD. They define a complete graph of objects and link them together. See for yourself: json.txt. It could be a problem with our parser, I might say.

[seyfeb]

sry I mixed up ingredients and instructions. my bad. the instructions are grouped and can't be imported correctly. however, the logic is probably the same (?)

[christianlupus]

What do you mean by logic? In the Schema.org standard the instructions can be of type HowToSection as in the named example. For the ingredients, no such structure is allowed. There only plain text is in the standard.

[seyfeb]

Okay, that I didn’t know. Then we should check why the instructions can’t be imported. The ingredients worked fine. I open a different issue for this - this doesn’t fit here.