Category/Vegetables/Spinachs

The category Spinach

Super-categories

The super (parent) categories of Spinach are:

• Leaf vegetables;
• etc.

Sub-categories

• Canned spinachs for Spinachs in glass pots and cans;
• Frozen spinach leaves for frozen Spinach, but with leaves still whole;
• Frozen chopped spinachs for frozen Spinach where the leaves a finely cut;

Related categories

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

• Spinach with cream sauce for Spinach with cream. Often (only?) frozen;

Ingredients

Required ingredients

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

• spinach

Optional ingredients

• Salt - Most [Canned Spinachs] have salt added.
• Water - Most [Canned Spinachs] have water added.

Disallowed ingredients

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

Production process/labels

not much yet.

Issues

• Are some spinachs sold in can or pot also (pre-)cooked)?

Nutritional information

To be done at a later stage, when the updated categories are implemented.

	min	10%	med	90%	max
Energy (kJ/100g)
Fat (%)
Saturated fat (%)
Carbohydrates (%)
Sugars (%)
Fiber (%)
Proteins (%)
Salt (%)
Fruit (%)

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

Spinach is sold by:

• package - for frozen Spinach or pre-packed in the vegetables aisles;
• weight - in the bulk vegetable aisles;

References

• Spinach@wikipedia;
• Spinach@wiktionary;
• Spinach@wikidata;