Category/Nuts/Pine Nuts
The category Pine nuts describes are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus).
The category contains 297 products on 15 November 2024.
Product names
The product names should contain the word Pistachio 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 Pistachio nuts is:
- Nuts;
- etc.
Note that Pistachios do NOT have Seeds as parent.
Usage-based super categories
These are the super categories that specify how the Pistachio products are used:
- Appetizers
- Cooking helpers for small pistachio pieces (Hacked pistachios);
- Salted snacks
Sub-categories
These subcategories are orthogonal: a product can be assigned one or more of the subcategories. This category has several subcategories:
- By origin
- By shell
- By treatment:
- Plain pistachios - not salted, nor roasted;
- Salted pistachios;
- Roasted pistachios;
- Pistachios (roasted and salted);
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
- Salted pistachios combines the category Pistachios with the Ingredient Salt (if that exists): Salt + Pistachios;
- Pistachios (roasted and salted) combines the categories Roasted pistachios and Salted pistachios;
Related categories
The ingredient Pistachio(s) occurs in some 1021 categories. Several categories have Pistachio in their name:
- Chocolate-Pistachio ice cream cones;
- Chocolate covered pistachios;
- Croissants with almonds and pistachio;
- Mortadella with pistachios pure pork;
- Pistachio oils;
- Pistachio butters for ground pistachios (>50%) with added oil and sugar;
- Pistachio spreads for pistachio based products (<50% pistachios);
- Pistachio ice cream tubs;
- Rolled escalope of pork with pistachios;
- Tongue sausage with pistachios;
Ingredients
The ingredients for Pistachios.
Pistachios(plain)
- Minimal ingredients
- Optional ingredients
- none
- Disallowed ingredients
- none
Pistachios(roasted)
- Minimal ingredients
- Optional ingredients
- salt
- Disallowed ingredients
- none
Pistachios(salted)
Production process/labels
not yet looked at
Origin
The origin of Pistachios is shown in the pie chart. Note that many origins have not yet been transcribed from the images.
Nutritional information
Portion size
The portion size of Unshelled pistachios can be given either with the shell or without the shell. The shell makes up 50% of a pistachio's weight. Some product do not make it explicit if the nutritional values are weighted with or without the shell. Sometimes it is possible to make a correction.
Pistachios
| min | 10% | med | 90% | max | ipd | lower | upper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kJ/100g) | 1640 | 2370 | 2530 | 2660 | 3140 | 290 | 2080 | 2950 |
| Fat (%) | 11.4 | 44.8 | 48.3 | 54 | 68 | 9.2 | 35.6 | 63.2 |
| Saturated fat (%) | 1.67 | 5.29 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 1.71 | 3.58 | 8.71 |
| Carbohydrates (%) | 1.48 | 8.6 | 15.1 | 28.7 | 39 | 20.1 | 0 | 35.1 |
| Sugars (%) | 0.8 | 4.7 | 6.9 | 7.9 | 12 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 11.1 |
| Fiber (%) | 2 | 7.4 | 10 | 11 | 16.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 14.6 |
| Proteins (%) | 9.5 | 20 | 21.3 | 25 | 33.3 | 5 | 15 | 30 |
| Salt (%) | 0 | 0.01 | 1.2 | 2 | 3.2 | na | ||
| Fruit (%) | 100 |
- ipd = the interpercentile distance (90%-10%)
- lower = 10% - ipd
- upper = 90% + ipd
Unsalted pistachios
| min | 10% | med | 90% | max | ipd | lower | upper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 |
Salted pistachios
| min | 10% | med | 90% | max | ipd | lower | upper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt (%) | 0.38 | 0.79 | 1.33 | 1.88 | 3.6 | 1.09 | 0 | 2.97 |
Note the large range of salt levels.
Nutrition score
The Nutrition Score varies wildly (salt level, nuts not taken into account?)
Comparing categories
Not relevant.
Quality Monitoring
Generic errors
- Data quality errors that can be detected;
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 pistachios should only contain the ingredient Pistachio;
- Internel opposites:
- Plain pistachio and Pistachios(salted), Pistachios(roasted) should not be assigned simultaneously;
- Pistachios(salted) and Pistachios(unsalted) should not be assigned simultaneously;
- Pistachios(shelled) and Pistachios(unshelled) 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 pistachios - to detect chocolate covered nuts;
Sales format
Pecan nuts are sold by:
- package - pre-packed in the nuts aisles;
- weight - in the bulk aisles;
Regular maintenance
Once the category has been cleaned up one can perform regular maintenance by visiting the links below and do additional repairs.
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;
Hunger Game
Classify products which Robotoff has identify as Pine nuts:
Minmax 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
Issues
Quite a lot of products have issues with nutritional values. It seems due to a difference in weight used, either with or without shells.
A few other subcategories could be defined, but have few products at the moment:
- Hacked pistachios for pistachios that have been hacked into small pieces;
- Pistachio butters(100%) for pistachions that have been ground without added ingredients like sugar or oil;
- Pistachio flours for finely ground pistachios
- Dry roasted pistachios for roasted pistachios without oil.
References
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. The following steps were followed: