Category/Vegetables/Broccoli

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-category

The super (parent) categories of Broccoli is:

• Vegetables;
• etc.

Sub-categories

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

By presentation

• Fresh broccoli for Broccoli raw;
• Frozen broccolis for Broccoli found in the frozen aisles.;

By treatment

• Cooked eggplant

Related categories

The ingredient Broccoli occurs in some 914 categories. Several of these categories highlight Broccoli:

• Broccoli;

Ingredients

Fresh Aubergines

• Required ingredients
  • Aubergine
• Optional ingredients
  • none
• Disallowed ingredients
  • everything else

Frozen Aubergines

• Minimally required ingredients
  • Aubergine
• Optional ingredients
  • Vegetable oil
• Disallowed ingredients
  • everything else

Production process/labels

not yet looked at

Nutritional information

Fresh aubergines

Data incorrect

	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 aubergines

Data incorrect

	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 eggplant should only contain the ingredient Eggplant;
• Opposites:
  • Frozen eggplant and Fresh eggplant should not be assigned simultaneously;

Nutritional errors

To be defined

Sales format

Aubergines are sold by:

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

Issues

The Aubergine taxonomy contained the Prepared Aubergines. Before any further work the taxonomy needs to be updates (status 3 oct 2024);

References

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