Category/Vegetables/Belgian-endives

The category Belgian endives describes the

The category comprises the leaves that are not or minimally processed, with some added ingredients.

Super-categories

The super (parent) categories of Belgian endives are:

• Leaf vegetables;
• etc.

Sub-categories

• Canned Belgian endives for Belgian endives in glass pots and cans;
• 20belgian%20endives Fresh Belgian endives for fresh Belgian endives;

Related categories

The ingredient Belgian endives occurs in some 1900 categories. Several of these categories highlight spinach:

• Cannelloni with goat cheese and spinach;
• Cannelloni with ricotta and spinach;
• Goat cheese and spinach tart;
• Lasagne with goat cheese and spinach;
• Salmon and spinach lasagna;
• Ravioli with ricotta and spinach;
• Spinach with cream sauce for Spinach with cream. Often (only?) frozen;
• [1] - radicchio (italian chicory);

Ingredients

Required ingredients

The following single ingredient is required for products in this category:

• endive%20belgian endive

Optional ingredients

• Salt - Most Belgian endives have salt added.
• Water - Most Belgian endives have water added.

Disallowed ingredients

Any product that contains other ingredients, should be listed in another category.

Production process/labels

not yet looked at

Nutritional information

Fresh spinachs

	min	10%	med	90%	max
Energy (kJ/100g)	71	81	105	128	146
Fat (%)	0	0	0.5	0.6	1
Saturated fat (%)	0	0	0.1	0.138	0.5
Carbohydrates (%)	0	0.3	1	3.53	4.15
Sugars (%)	0	0	0.33	0.7	1.5
Fiber (%)	0.9	1.6	2.2	2.5	3.6
Proteins (%)	1	1.8	2.77	3.3	5
Salt (%)	0	0.03	0.17	0.25	0.35
Fruit (%)			100

Frozen spinachs

	min	10%	med	90%	max
Energy (kJ/100g)	60	77	108	131	161
Fat (%)	0	0	0.5	0.8	2,4
Saturated fat (%)	0	0	0.1	0.2	1.3
Carbohydrates (%)	0	0.5	1.1	3.61	5
Sugars (%)	0	0	0.5	1.2	1.9
Fiber (%)	0.9	1.9	2.4	3.6	4.4
Proteins (%)	1.6	2.1	2.8	3.4	4.7
Salt (%)	0	0.03	0.1	0.34	1
Fruit (%)			100

Quality Monitoring

• Single ingredient check:
  • Young spinach leaves should only contain the ingredient Spinach;
  • Fresh spinachs should only contain the ingredient Spinach;
• Dairy check - for Spinach with cream sauce, which has been classified as Spinachs as well;
• Opposites:
  • Frozen spinach leaves and Frozen chopped spinachs should not be assigned simultaneously;
• Nutritional values envelope - none defined yet;

Last cleanup by hand on 7 sep 2024.

Sales format

Belgian endives is sold by:

• package - sold in bags with multiple whole heads;
• tins
• weight - in the bulk vegetable aisles or markets;

References

• Chicory@wikipedia - focussed on the plant;
• Belgian_endive@wiktionary;
• Chicory@wikidata - no distinction is made between the plant and the food;