Category/Nuts/Pecan Nuts

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The category Pecan nuts describes the edible seed of the Carya illinoinensis. Pecan nuts are sold untreated (plain) and treated (toasted and/or salted).

Pecan nuts have Nutriscore A, due to the very high amount of fiber and proteins, which compensates the saturated fat and energy. Nova 1.

Product names

The product names should contain the word Pecan nut 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

Super-category

The super (parent) categories of Pecan nuts is:

Sub-categories

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

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Related categories

The ingredient Pecan nut occurs in some 640 categories. Several categories have Walnut in their name:

Ingredients

The ingredients for Pecan nuts.

Pecan nuts(plain)

  • Minimal ingredients
  • Optional ingredients
    • none
  • Disallowed ingredients
    • none

Pecan nuts(roasted)

Pecan nuts(salted)

  • Required ingredients
  • Optional ingredients
    • oil and fat
  • Disallowed ingredients
    • none

Production process/labels

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Origin

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

Nutritional information

Pecan nuts without salt and oil

min 10% med 90% max
Energy (kJ/100g) 2690 2890 3000 3180 3220
Fat (%) 64 70 72 73.3 76.9
Saturated fat (%) 3 5.6 6.2 7.14 11
Carbohydrates (%) 2.9 4.3 5.8 14.3 15.4
Sugars (%) 2.2 3.1 3.8 4.1 5
Fiber (%) 2.9 5.5 9.5 10.7 13.8
Proteins (%) 7.8 9.2 10 11 16
Salt (%) 0 0 0 0.025 0.8
Fruit (%) 100

Nutrition score

Pecan nuts Nutrition score

The median Nutrition score is -1. Thus Pecan nuts are Nutri Score A.

Pecan nuts Nutriscore

Comparing categories

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Quality Monitoring

Generic errors

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

Nutritional errors

Sales format

Pecan nuts are sold by:

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

Completing data

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

Unclassified images of Pecan nuts.

Issues

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

  • Dry roasted pecan nuts for pecan nuts that are roasted without oil;
  • Flavoured pecan nuts for pecan nuts that have additional speces added;
  • Halved pecan nuts
  • Crushed pecan nuts
  • Unshelled pecan nuts

References