Category/Nuts/Pine Nuts

The category Pine nuts describes are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus).

The category contains 548 products on 19 November 2024.

Product names

The product names should contain the word Pine nuts 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-categories

Ingredients-based super categories

The super (parent) categories of Pine nuts is:

• Nuts;
• Nuts and their products;
• Plant-based foods;
• Plant-based food and beverages;

Note that Pine nuts do NOT have Seeds as parent.

Usage-based super categories

none

Sub-categories

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

• By origin
  • European pine nuts;
  • Siberian pine nuts;
  • Korean pine nuts;
• By shell
  • Shelled pine nuts - is true for all;
• By treatment:
  • Plain pine-nuts - not roasted;
  • Roasted pine nuts;

Convenience categories

Convenience categories are categories that can be expressed in terms of two and more facets, but exist to help the user entering categories

• none

Related categories

Several categories have Pistachio in their name:

• Pine nut oils;

Ingredients

The ingredient Pine nut(s) occurs in some 568 categories.

The ingredients for Pine nuts.

Pine nuts

• Minimal ingredients
  • Pine nuts
• Optional ingredients
  • none
• Disallowed ingredients
  • none

Production process/labels

not yet looked at

Origin

Pine nuts origins

The origin of Pine nuts is shown in the pie chart. Note that many origins have not yet been transcribed from the images.

Nutritional information

Pine nuts nutritional values

Pine nuts

	min	10%	med	90%	max	ipd	lower	upper
Energy (kJ/100g)	2090	2470	2870	3010	3160	540	1930	3550
Fat (%)	37	49.2	65	69	75	19.8	29.4	88.8
Saturated fat (%)	2.2	4.6	5.2	7.2	15	2.6	2.0	9.8
Carbohydrates (%)	1.8	4	10	14.2	30	10.2	0	24.2
Sugars (%)	0	1.6	3.6	5.2	14.9	3.6	0	8.8
Fiber (%)	0	2.7	3.77	10	16.3	7.3	0	17.3
Proteins (%)	9	13.3	16	29.8	37	20.8	0	50.6
Salt (%)	0	0	0.01	0.09	0.33	0.08	0	0.17
Fruit (%)			100

• ipd = the interpercentile distance (90%-10%)
• lower = 10% - ipd
• upper = 90% + ipd

Some of the values are rather spread out. It suggests that there are subcategories with different nutritional values. Needs more looked into.

Nutrition score

Pine Nuts Nutritionscore 18 nov 2024

The Nutrition Score suggests varies between C (146 products) and D (186 products). It is not clear whether Pine nuts should be taken into account as nuts. This would move all a score down.

The median Nutriscore is Yellow (B) or Dark Green (A) if it counts as Nuts.

Comparing categories

Not relevant.

Quality checks

Categorisation errors

• Single ingredient check:
  • Pine nuts should only contain the ingredient Pine nut;
• Internal opposites:
  • Plain pine nuts and Roasted pine nuts should not be assigned simultaneously;
  • European pineSiberian pine and Korean pine 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):
  • none seem relevant

Sales format

Pine nuts are sold by:

• package - pre-packed in the nuts aisles;

Regular maintenance

Once the category has been cleaned up one can perform regular maintenance by visiting the links below and do additional repairs.

Generic errors

• Data quality errors that can be detected;

Hunger Game

Classify products which Robotoff has identify as Pine nuts:

• Pine nuts.

Extracting data

• Nutritional values: products for which the nutritional values can be extracted from the associated image;
• Ingredients: products for which the ingredients can be extracted from the associated image;

Superfluous categories

Only the categories that belong to the parents should be present as category. Checking the categories list might help finding wrong one.

IPD nutritional envelope

• 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

References

• Pine_nut@wikipedia;
• pine_nut@wiktionary;
• Pine nut (seed) nut@wikidata;
• Pine nuts in Mirabelle

• Journal/Pine nuts