Category/Canned peas and carrots
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The carrots category contains products, which contain only carrot. The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia.
Products in this category can be fresh or pre-cooked and made ready to eat with preservatives and sugar.
Categories
Supercategories
- Carrots, which also contains some other carrot-based foods;
- Fresh Vegetables for all raw vegetables;
Subcategories
- Dehydrated carrots
- Fresh carrots
- Frozen carrots - are these (pre-)cooked?
- Cooked carrots
- Canned carrots - this only says something about the packaging and not how the carrots are processed.
Related categories
- Prepared carrot - for everything which as mainly carrots (percentage?), but also has other ingredients;
- Canned peas and carrots - often the category carrots and/or peas has been added;
- Carrot salads - this is very similar to grated carrots, but oils, herbs and spices have been added.
Ingredients
This category should contain only one ingredient: carrot
Allowed ingredients
Forbidden ingredients
- Peas - often found when canned carrots and green peas is used as category;
- Mustard seed - found when a carrot salads is placed in the category salads
Nutritional information
For three main carrots subcategories it is possible to determine the nutritional values:
Fresh carrots
| min | 10% | 90% | max | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kJ/100ml) | 99 | 126 | 172 | 209 | |
| Fat (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.91 | |
| Saturated fat (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.21 | |
| Carbohydrates (%) | 1.1 | 5.3 | 9.0 | 10.1 | |
| Sugars (%) | 2.19 | 3.6 | 6.8 | 8.1 | |
| Fiber (%) | 0 | 2 | 3.1 | 4.0 | |
| Proteins (%) | 0 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 3.1 | |
| Salt (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.28 | 0.32 | |
| Fruit (%) | 99 | Could be inferred | |||
| Vitamin A (µg) | 352 | 835 | 1850 | 2090 | |
| Nutritional score | -9 | 2 |
Frozen carrots
| min | 10% | 90% | max | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kJ/100ml) | 99 | 126 | 172 | 209 | |
| Fat (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.71 | |
| Saturated fat (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.17 | |
| Carbohydrates (%) | 2.59 | 4.3 | 7.3 | 10.1 | |
| Sugars (%) | 1.89 | 2.8 | 6.5 | 6.71 | |
| Fiber (%) | 1.79 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 3.61 | |
| Proteins (%) | 0.39 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.19 | |
| Salt (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.16 | 0.24 | |
| Fruit (%) | 99 | Could be inferred | |||
| Nutritional score | -9 | 0 |
Canned carrots
| min | 10% | median | 90% | max | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy (kJ/100ml) | 67 | 85 | 113 | 163 | 205 | |
| Fat (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | ||
| Saturated fat (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
| Carbohydrates (%) | 2 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 7.8 | 10.8 | |
| Sugars (%) | 1.4 | 2 | 3.1 | 6.2 | 9.23 | |
| Fiber (%) | 1.79 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 4.0 | ||
| Proteins (%) | 0 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.98 | ||
| Salt (%) | 0 | 0.36 | 1.5 | 3.1 | Spanish carrots on vinegar have a high salt content | |
| Fruit (%) | 99 | Could be inferred | ||||
| Nutritional score | -9 | 8 |
Monitoring
The Mirabelle monitoring envelopes: