Confused About Mongoose Callbacks

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I’m confused by what exactly the done function is in this example (mongoose/mongodb). From my understanding, findOneByFood might be called when a certain route is hit on an Express server, then if the find (or any other operation) was successful, the data will be sent back to the done function. I’m not sure if this is right though.

var findOneByFood = function(food, done) {
  Person.find({favoriteFoods: food}, function(err, data) {
    if(err) return console.log(err);
    done(null, data);
  });  
};