Category/Nuts/Almonds/Journal

A journal has been kept of the cleanup process of this category in order to get a better feel what needs to be done, issues that arise and to assess the impact.

Befor starting there are 2943 products in the category Almonds.

The following steps were followed:

Definition

Almonds can be whole (I assume that they did not underwent any treatment). After they are shelled, the can be blanched (thin skin removed), salted or roasted. They can also be sliced, I assume the blanched ones.

Hunger game

Some usual errors: chocolate coated, spiced, as ingredient, part of a mix. There are also various ways to cut Almonds up: ground, chunks, etc. And there are various ways to roast them. 75 products have been added. Need to decide where to put all the spiced almond variants. And also the various spiced roasted almonds. After adding the first batch, Hunger Games makes more suggestions, so I lost count of how many have been added. Total is now 3210 products.

I went through all the Hunger Game Almond subcategories as well. I do not know whether these were already add to almonds, or whether they are new. I kept an eye on the associated info. So sometimes yes, sometimes no. This puts me in a doubt: should I say yes to an incorrect subcategory, in order to have the product listed under Almonds?

Categories

The Hunger games gives already some inspiration for subcategories:

• Unshelled almonds. not sure if there are any.
• Grilled almonds should be called Roasted almonds
• Almond peeled unpeeled or blanched and Shelled almonds seem the same, but have different Agribalyse
• If we have salted almonds, we need unsalted almonds;
• if we have roasted almonds we need unroasted almonds;
• And we can combine unsalted AND unroasted into raw almonds;

There are 336 associated categories. We expect only 10 or so. Time to cleanup and edit products.

Are Marcona almonds a thing?

There are some categories that seem to misuse Almonds:

• Almond drinks
• Chocolate covered almonds

Down to 54 categories. Stop here for the moment. Needed to edit 283 products.

Ingredients

At start there are 1482 ingredients associated with Almonds. Seems a lot of repair work,

Most errors are due to wrong classifications.

Down to 258 ingredients. Many ingredients are synonyms that are not yet in the taxonomy. Also often the product name is used as ingredient. I think I will remove those (or add in processing). By now added some 323 edits.

I no longer see the trees for the forest at 337 edits. What did I do and what not. Especially difficult to see for scripts like Thai.

Stil; 244 edits, lets look closer at some ingredients.