Category/Vegetables/Aubergine

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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 Aubergines 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

Related categories

The ingredient Aubergine or Eggplant occurs in some 914 categories. Several of these categories highlight Aubergine or Eggplant:

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

lower min 25% med 75% max upper
Energy (kJ/100g) 32.76 33.6 63 71.4 83.16 113.4 113.4
Fat (%) 0 0 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.9 1.1
Saturated fat (%) 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.24 0.25
Carbohydrates (%) 0.25 0.7 1.6 1.9 2.5 4.7 3.85
Sugars (%) 0 0 0.8 1.1 1.5 3.5 2.6
Fiber (%) 0.35 0.5 1.1 1.4 1.6 2.31 2.35
Proteins (%) 0 0 1.1 1.3 1.9 3 3.4
Salt (%) 0.15 0.7 0.79 0.91 1.27 1.2

Fresh asparagus

lower min 25% med 75% max upper
Energy (kJ/100g) 56.7 79.8 88.2 96.6 109.2 117.6 140.7
Fat (%) 0 0 0.08 0.2 0.36 0.6 0.79
Saturated fat (%) 0 0 0 0.07 0.1 0.11 0.25
Carbohydrates (%) 0.53 0.95 2.45 3.5 3.73 3.96 3.85
Sugars (%) 0 0.1 0.53 1.8 1.8 2.2 3.8
Fiber (%) 0.75 1 1.5 1.7 2 2.09 2.75
Proteins (%) 1.3 2.16 2.2 2.2 2.8 3.4 3.7
Salt (%) 0 0 0 0.005 0.01 0.1 0.025
Fruit (%) 100

Frozen asparagus

lower min 10% 25% med 75% 90% max upper
Energy (kJ/100g) 56 79.8 88 98 117.8 126 130 130.2 168
Fat (%) 0 0 0 0.05 0.2 0.3 0.7 1.0 0.68
Saturated fat (%) 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.25
Carbohydrates (%) 0.35 1.7 2 2.6 3.65 4.1 4.3 4.8 6.35
Sugars (%) 0 0 0.3 0.32 1.3 1.9 1.9 2.53 4.3
Fiber (%) 0 1 1.2 0 1.2 1.6 2.1 2.1 4
Proteins (%) 1.45 1.7 1.7 2,2 2.53 2.7 3.2 3.2 3.45
Salt (%) 0 0 0 0 0 0.007 0.011 0.011 0.02
Fruit (%) 100

Comparing categories

The categories can be compared for each nutritional value

Energy

 
Energy

There is a significant difference between the energy of the canned products and the fresh/frozen products.

Fat

 
Fat

Carbohydrates

 
Carbohydrates

The carbohydrates seem reduced for the Canned Asparagus.

Sugars

 
Sugars

No difference between categories.

Fiber

 
Fibre

Seems the same across categories. The frozen zero values seem in error.

Proteins

 
Proteins

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

Salt

 
Salt

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

Generic errors

Categorisation errors

Nutritional errors

  • Nutritional values envelope based on lower and upper limits:
  • Fresh Asparagus - Mirabelle;
  • Frozen Asparagus - Mirabelle
  • Canned Asparagus - Mirabelle

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