# activeIngredient

An active ingredient, typically chemical compounds and/or biologic substances.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | Data type: Text. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [DietarySupplement](https://schema.org.ai/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. |
| [Drug](https://schema.org.ai/Drug) | A chemical or biologic substance, used as a medical therapy, that has a physiological effect on an organism. Here the term drug is used interchangeably with the term medicine although clinical knowledge makes a clear difference between them. |
| [DrugStrength](https://schema.org.ai/DrugStrength) | A specific strength in which a medical drug is available in a specific country. |
| [Substance](https://schema.org.ai/Substance) | Any matter of defined composition that has discrete existence, whose origin may be biological, mineral or chemical. |

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