Category/Vegetables/Asparagus

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The category Asparagus is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus Asparagus native to Eurasia. Widely cultivated as a vegetable crop, its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable.

Super-categories

The super (parent) categories of Asparagus are:

Sub-categories

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

By type

By presentation

By size

By treatment

By origin

Related categories

The ingredient Asparagus occurs in some 390 categories. Several of these categories highlight Asparagus:

Ingredients

Canned Asparagus

Required ingredients

The following single ingredient is required for products in this category:

Optional ingredients

Disallowed ingredients

  • Herbs - should be in Prepared asparagus;
  • Spices - should be in Prepared asparagus;

Fresh Asparagus

Required ingredients

The following single ingredient is required for products in this category:

Depending on the type subcategory this can be green, violet or white asparagus.

Optional ingredients

none

Disallowed ingredients

everything else

Production process/labels

not yet looked at

Nutritional information

Canned asparagus

min 25% med 75% max upper
Energy (kJ/100g) 33 72 127
Fat (%) 0 0 0.5
Saturated fat (%) 0 0.1 0.107
Carbohydrates (%) 0.7 1.9 4,7
Sugars (%) 0 1.1 3.5
Fiber (%) 0 1.4 3.9
Proteins (%) 0.2 1.3 3.4
Salt (%) 0.15 0.7 0.79 0.91 1.27 1.2

Fresh asparagus

min 25% med 75% max upper
Energy (kJ/100g) 79 105 117
Fat (%) 0 0.2 0.6
Saturated fat (%) 0 0.1 0.107
Carbohydrates (%) 0.95 3.5 3.96
Sugars (%) 0.1 1.8 2.2
Fiber (%) 1 1.7 2.09
Proteins (%) 1 2.2 3.4
Salt (%) 0 0 0.005 0.01 0.1 0.025
Fruit (%) 100

Frozen asparagus

min 10% 25% med 75% 90% max
Energy (kJ/100g) 88 88 118 130 130
Fat (%) 0 0 0.2 0.7 1.0
Saturated fat (%) 0 0 0.1 0.1 0.2
Carbohydrates (%) 1.7 2 3.8 4.3 4.8
Sugars (%) 0 0.3 1.3 1.9 2.53
Fiber (%) 1 1.2 1.5 2.1 2.1
Proteins (%) 1 1.7 2.6 3.2 3.2
Salt (%) 0 0 0 0 0.007 0.011 0.011 0.02
Fruit (%) 100

Comparing categories

Proteins

 
Comparing Asparagus categories proteins

The fresh and frozen categories are comparable. The canned category has less proteins. Is this due to the dilution by water?

Salt

 
Comparing salt-level of some Asparagus subcategories.

The figure shows the violin plots and data of three asparagus subcategories. For the fresh and frozen subcategories there is not much data. However for the Canned Asparagus there is a lot of data. It is clear that salt has been added for all of the products. The box-plot also allows to identify the outlier limits (upper and lower) for each category.

Quality Monitoring

Last cleanup by hand on 28 sep 2024.

Sales format

Asparagus is sold by:

  • package - for frozen Asparagus, for pots/tins or pre-packed in the vegetables aisles;
  • weight - in the bulk vegetable aisles;

Issues

none

References