Category/Vegetables/Aubergine

The category Aubergines is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae grown for its often purple edible fruit. Although eggplant is the common name in many countries, in British English, it is called aubergine.

Super-categories

The super (parent) categories of Aubergines are:

• Vegetables;
• etc.

Sub-categories

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

By presentation

• Fresh aubergines for Aubergines raw;
• Frozen aubergines for Aubergines found in the frozen aisles. These are often grilled;

By treatment

• Cooked eggplant

Related categories

The ingredient Aubergine or Eggplant occurs in some 914 categories. Several of these categories highlight Aubergine or Eggplant:

• Eggplant gratin;
• Eggplant caviar;
• Pickled eggplants;

Ingredients

Fresh Aubergines

Required ingredients

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

• Aubergine

Optional ingredients

none

Disallowed ingredients

everything else

Frozen Aubergines

Minimally required ingredients

The following ingredient is at least required for products in this category:

• Aubergine

Optional ingredients

The following ingredient is at least required for products in this category:

• Vegetable oil

Disallowed ingredients

everything else

Production process/labels

not yet looked at

Nutritional information

Canned asparagus

	lower	min	25%	med	75%	max	upper
Energy (kJ/100g)	32.76	33.6	63	71.4	83.16	113.4	113.4
Fat (%)	0	0	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.9	1.1
Saturated fat (%)	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.24	0.25
Carbohydrates (%)	0.25	0.7	1.6	1.9	2.5	4.7	3.85
Sugars (%)	0	0	0.8	1.1	1.5	3.5	2.6
Fiber (%)	0.35	0.5	1.1	1.4	1.6	2.31	2.35
Proteins (%)	0	0	1.1	1.3	1.9	3	3.4
Salt (%)		0.15	0.7	0.79	0.91	1.27	1.2

Fresh asparagus

	lower	min	25%	med	75%	max	upper
Energy (kJ/100g)	56.7	79.8	88.2	96.6	109.2	117.6	140.7
Fat (%)	0	0	0.08	0.2	0.36	0.6	0.79
Saturated fat (%)	0	0	0	0.07	0.1	0.11	0.25
Carbohydrates (%)	0.53	0.95	2.45	3.5	3.73	3.96	3.85
Sugars (%)	0	0.1	0.53	1.8	1.8	2.2	3.8
Fiber (%)	0.75	1	1.5	1.7	2	2.09	2.75
Proteins (%)	1.3	2.16	2.2	2.2	2.8	3.4	3.7
Salt (%)	0	0	0	0.005	0.01	0.1	0.025
Fruit (%)				100

Frozen asparagus

	lower	min	10%	25%	med	75%	90%	max	upper
Energy (kJ/100g)	56	79.8	88	98	117.8	126	130	130.2	168
Fat (%)	0	0	0	0.05	0.2	0.3	0.7	1.0	0.68
Saturated fat (%)	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.25
Carbohydrates (%)	0.35	1.7	2	2.6	3.65	4.1	4.3	4.8	6.35
Sugars (%)	0	0	0.3	0.32	1.3	1.9	1.9	2.53	4.3
Fiber (%)	0	1	1.2	0	1.2	1.6	2.1	2.1	4
Proteins (%)	1.45	1.7	1.7	2,2	2.53	2.7	3.2	3.2	3.45
Salt (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0.007	0.011	0.011	0.02
Fruit (%)					100

Comparing categories

Not enough to compare.

Quality Monitoring

Generic errors

• Errors

Categorisation errors

• Single ingredient check:
  • Fresh asparagus should only contain the ingredient Asparagus;
  • Frozen asparagus should only contain the ingredient Asparagus;
• Opposites:
  • Canned asparagus, Frozen asparagus and Fresh asparagus should not be assigned simultaneously;
  • Green asparagus, Purple asparagus and White asparagus should not be assigned simultaneously;

Nutritional errors

• Nutritional values envelope based on lower and upper limits:
• Fresh Asparagus - Mirabelle;
• Frozen Asparagus - Mirabelle
• Canned Asparagus - Mirabelle

Last cleanup by hand on 28 sep 2024.

Sales format

Asparagus is sold by:

• package - for frozen Asparagus, for pots/tins or pre-packed in the vegetables aisles;
• weight - in the bulk vegetable aisles;

Issues

none

References

• Eggplant@wikipedia;
• Eggplant@wiktionary;
• Asparagus (food)@wikidata;