Category/Fruits/Bananas
The category Bananas contains products based on the elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
The category contains 802 products on 4 January 2025.
Product names
The product names should contain the word Bananas or something related. Analysing these product names might help to find wrongly classified products or identify new subcategories. This should be done for each language. A word cloud gives a first impression.
Categorisation
The categories need a future check after the category taxonomy has been updated (4 jan 2025).
Super-categories
Ingredients-based super categories
The super (parent) categories of Bananas is:
Note that Pine nuts do NOT have Seeds as parent.
Usage-based super categories
Dried bananas can be seen as sweet snacks.
Sub-categories
These subcategories are orthogonal: a product can be assigned one or more of the subcategories. This category has several subcategories:
- By type
- By treatment:
- Fresh bananas - with skin;
- Frozen bananas;
- Dried bananas (not fried);
- By grounding:
Convenience categories
Convenience categories are categories that can be expressed in terms of two and more facets, but exist to help the user entering categories
- Bananas(fresh whole Cavendish) - fresh whole Cavendish bananas;
Related categories
Many categories have Banana(s) in their name:
- Banana Apple compotes;
- Banana breads;
- Banana bread mixes;
- Banana cereal bars;
- Banana crisps - fried dried bananas;
- Banana jams;
- Banana muffins;
- Banana nectars;
- Banana sorbets;
- Banana soy yogurts;
- Banana yogurts;
- Gummy bananas - a candy;
Subcategories graph
Ingredients
The ingredient Banana occurs in some 1398 categories.
The ingredients for Bananas.
Bananas
- Minimal ingredients
- Optional ingredients
- none
- Disallowed ingredients
Production process/labels
not yet looked at
Origin
Nutritional information
The plots seem to suggest that there are two nutritional subcategories.
Bananas
min | 10% | med | 90% | max | ipd | lower | upper | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Energy (kJ/100g) | 122 | 360 | 406 | 406 | 447 | 46 | 314 | 452 |
Fat (%) | 0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.625 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.9 |
Saturated fat (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.133 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 |
Carbohydrates (%) | 12.9 | 19.6 | 21 | 23 | 32 | 3.4 | 16.2 | 26.4 |
Sugars (%) | 7.89 | 12.2 | 16 | 17.8 | 20.9 | 5.6 | 6.6 | 23.4 |
Fiber (%) | 1 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 4 | 1.7 | 0 | 4.8 |
Proteins (%) | 0 | 1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 1 | 1.4 |
Salt (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.032 | 0.1 | 0.032 | 0 | 0.064 |
- Vipd = the interpercentile distance (V90% - V10%)
- Vlower = V10% - Vipd
- Vupper = V90% + Vipd
Nutrition score
The Nutrition Score suggests varies between A (168 products) and C (21 products). There seems to be an issue with marking all Bananas as Fruit for the Score. This should move most products to Nutriscore A.
The median Nutriscore is Dark Green (A) if it counts as Fruits.
Median nutritional values
Comparing categories
Is there a difference between the banana varieties?
Quality checks
Categorisation errors
- Single ingredient check:
- Bananas(fresh whole Cavendish) should only contain the ingredient cavendish-banana;
- Internal opposites:
- Bananas(fresh), Bananas(dried) and Bananas(frozen) should not be assigned simultaneously;
- Oneside opposites(these are categories which are incompatible and which are often due to adding an ingredient as a category):
Bulk sales
- Bananas(fresh whole Cavendish) are sold by package, by weight and per item;
Regular maintenance
Once the category has been cleaned up one can perform regular maintenance by visiting the links below and do additional repairs.
Generic errors
- Data quality errors that can be detected;
Hunger Game
Classify products which Robotoff has identify as category Bananas:
Extracting data
- Nutritional values: products for which the nutritional values can be extracted from the associated image;
- Ingredients: products for which the ingredients can be extracted from the associated image;
Superfluous categories
Only the categories that belong to the parents should be present as category. Checking the categories list might help finding wrong one.
IPD nutritional envelope
- Energy envelope check
- Fat envelope check
- Saturated fat envelope check
- Carbohydrates envelope check
- Sugars envelope check
- Fiber envelope check
- Proteins envelope check
- Salt envelope check
Issues
- A category Fresh bananas has been added in order to distinguish from dried bananas etc;
- A category Whole bananas added to distinguish from pulp and flour;
- In the shop mostly Cavendish bananas are sold, added as category;
- For convenience category Bananas(fresh whole Cavendish) added. Most products fall in this category;
- Dried bananas put outside Bananas. It has another nutritional profile;
- Distinguish between Dried bananas and Banana chips? One has frying oil as extra ingredient? Can only been done after implementing a new taxonomy;
- We could have a different mapping for Bananas;