Category/Nuts/Pistachios

The category Pistachio nuts describes the edible seed of the tree Pistacia Vera. The nuts are sold with or without shell and can be roasted and salted as well. Shelled nuts can be broken in pieces (hacked), ground or made into a nut butter.

Pistachios are also sold flavoured with Chili, Pepper, Lime, etc (Flavoured Pistachios). Pistachios are sold as a confectionary when coated with chocolate (Chocolate covered Pistachios) or caramelised (Caramelised pistachios). When pistachios are finely ground with added fat and sugare, it becomes a Pistachio cream like Nutella.

The category contains 1404 products on 12 November 2024.

Product names

The product names should contain the word Pistachio 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.

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Categorisation

Super-categories

Ingredients-based super categories

The super (parent) categories of Pistachio nuts is:

Nuts;
etc.

Note that Pistachios do NOT have Seeds as parent.

Usage-based super categories

These are the super categories that specify how the Pistachio products are used:

Appetizers
Cooking helpers for small pistachio pieces (Hacked pistachios);
Salted snacks

Sub-categories

These subcategories are orthogonal: a product can be assigned one or more of the subcategories. This category has several subcategories:

By origin
- Pistachios from Raffadali;
- Pistacchi di Bronte;
By shell
- Shelled pistachios;
- Unshelled pistachios;
By treatment:
- Plain pistachios - not salted, nor roasted;
- Salted pistachios;
- Roasted pistachios;
- Pistachios (roasted and salted);

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

Salted pistachios combines the category Pistachios with the Ingredient Salt (if that exists): Salt + Pistachios;
Pistachios (roasted and salted) combines the categories Roasted pistachios and Salted pistachios;

Related categories

The ingredient Pistachio(s) occurs in some 1021 categories. Several categories have Pistachio in their name:

Chocolate-Pistachio ice cream cones;
Chocolate covered pistachios;
Croissants with almonds and pistachio;
Mortadella with pistachios pure pork;
Pistachio oils;
Pistachio butters for ground pistachios (>50%) with added oil and sugar;
Pistachio spreads for pistachio based products (<50% pistachios);
Pistachio ice cream tubs;
Rolled escalope of pork with pistachios;
Tongue sausage with pistachios;

Ingredients

The ingredients for Pistachios.

Pistachios(plain)

Minimal ingredients
- Pistachios
Optional ingredients
- none
Disallowed ingredients
- none

Pistachios(roasted)

Minimal ingredients
- Pistachio
Optional ingredients
- salt
Disallowed ingredients
- none

Pistachios(salted)

Required ingredients
- Pistachio, Salt
Optional ingredients
- oil and fat
Disallowed ingredients
- none

Production process/labels

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Origin

Origins

The origin of Pistachios is shown in the pie chart. Note that many origins have not yet been transcribed from the images.

Nutritional information

Portion size

The portion size of Unshelled pistachios can be given either with the shell or without the shell. The shell makes up 50% of a pistachio's weight. Some product do not make it explicit if the nutritional values are weighted with or without the shell. Sometimes it is possible to make a correction.

Pistachios

	min	10%	med	90%	max	ipd	lower	upper
Energy (kJ/100g)	1640	2370	2530	2660	3140	290	2080	2950
Fat (%)	11.4	44.8	48.3	54	68	9.2	35.6	63.2
Saturated fat (%)	1.67	5.29	6	7	12	1.71	3.58	8.71
Carbohydrates (%)	1.48	8.6	15.1	28.7	39	20.1	0	35.1
Sugars (%)	0.8	4.7	6.9	7.9	12	3.2	1.5	11.1
Fiber (%)	2	7.4	10	11	16.7	3.6	3.8	14.6
Proteins (%)	9.5	20	21.3	25	33.3	5	15	30
Salt (%)	0	0.01	1.2	2	3.2	na
Fruit (%)			100

ipd = the interpercentile distance (90%-10%)
lower = 10% - ipd
upper = 90% + ipd

Unsalted pistachios

	min	10%	med	90%	max	ipd	lower	upper
Salt (%)	0	0	0.01	0.1	0.1	0.1	0	0.2

Salted pistachios

	min	10%	med	90%	max	ipd	lower	upper
Salt (%)	0.38	0.79	1.33	1.88	3.6	1.09	0	2.97

Note the large range of salt levels.

Nutrition score

The Nutrition Score varies wildly (salt level, nuts not taken into account?)

Comparing categories

Not relevant.

Quality Monitoring

Generic errors

Data quality errors that can be detected;

Superfluous categories

Only the categories that belong to the parents should be present as category. Checking the categories list might help finding wrong one.

Categorisation errors

Single ingredient check:
- Plain pistachios should only contain the ingredient Pistachio;
Internel opposites:
- Plain pistachio and Pistachios(salted), Pistachios(roasted) should not be assigned simultaneously;
- Pistachios(salted) and Pistachios(unsalted) should not be assigned simultaneously;
- Pistachios(shelled) and Pistachios(unshelled) 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):
- Mixed nuts - to detect adding all the different nuts in mixed nuts;
- Chocolate covered pistachios - to detect chocolate covered nuts;

Sales format

Pecan nuts are sold by:

package - pre-packed in the nuts aisles;
weight - in the bulk aisles;

Regular maintenance

Once the category has been cleaned up one can perform regular maintenance by visiting the links below and do additional repairs.

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;

Hunger Game

Classify products for the various (sub-)categories (be careful Pistachios with Pepper, vinegar, chili, etc., do NOT fall under Pistachios):

Minmax nutritional envelope

Issues

Quite a lot of products have issues with nutritional values. It seems due to a difference in weight used, either with or without shells.

A few other subcategories could be defined, but have few products at the moment:

Hacked pistachios for pistachios that have been hacked into small pieces;
Pistachio butters(100%) for pistachions that have been ground without added ingredients like sugar or oil;
Pistachio flours for finely ground pistachios
Dry roasted pistachios for roasted pistachios without oil.

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