Category/Nuts/Pecan Nuts

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.

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Categorisation

Super-category

The super (parent) categories of Pecan nuts is:

• Nuts;
• etc.

Sub-categories

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

• By treatment:
  • Pecan nuts (roasted and salted)

Related categories

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

• Caramelized pecan nuts;
• Chocolate covered pecan nuts;
• Pecan pies;
• Pecan oils;
• Vanilla and pecan ice cream tubs;

Ingredients

The ingredients for Pecan nuts.

Pecan nuts(plain)

• Minimal ingredients
  • Pecan nut
• Optional ingredients
  • none
• Disallowed ingredients
  • none

Pecan nuts(roasted)

• Minimal ingredients
  • Pecan nut, Oil and fat
• Optional ingredients
  • salt
• Disallowed ingredients
  • none

Pecan nuts(salted)

• Required ingredients
  • Pecan nut, Salt
• Optional ingredients
  • oil and fat
• Disallowed ingredients
  • none

Production process/labels

not yet looked at

Origin

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

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

Comparing categories

Not relevant.

Quality Monitoring

Generic errors

• 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

• Single ingredient check:
  • Plain pecan nuts should only contain the ingredient Pecan nut;
• Opposites:
  • Plain pecan nuts and Pecan nuts(salted), Pecan nuts(roasted) should not be assigned simultaneously;
• Oneside opposites(these are categories which are incompatible and which are often due to adding an ingredient as a category):
  • Mixed nuts - to detect adding all the different nuts in mixed nuts;
  • Chocolate covered pecan-nuts - to detect chocolate covered nuts;
  • Caramelized pecan-nuts - to detect caramelized nuts;

Nutritional errors

• Energy envelope check
• Fat envelope check
• Saturated fat envelope check
• Carbohydrates envelope check
• Sugars envelope check
• Fiber envelope check
• Proteins envelope check
• Salt envelope check

Sales format

Pecan nuts are sold by:

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

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

No unshelled pecan nuts are yet in the database.

References

• Pecan@wikipedia;
• Pecan@wiktionary;
• Pecan_nut@wikidata;