Journal/Pine nuts

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:

Definition

The first step is to assess what we are talking about. The category Pine Nuts has 297 products on 15 nov 2024. It has a single subcategory Shelled pine nuts, which has 50 products. I did not know that these were sold unshelled?

From a botanical side these are also called seeds, but then any nut is a kind of seed. There seem to be many variants of these edible seeds from different trees. In fact there is category cedar nuts, which should be put under this category.

Scrolling through the products in the category, all products seem similar. There are no obvious other related categories. Thus anything we recognize as a pine nut we can assign to this category, through the Hunger game, which is the next step.

Hunger game

Hunger game has some 100 images of supposedly pine nut products. Some observations: can be toasted, from Ceders, Spanish?, Siberia? (Pinus Siberica), China. Images from the nutritional table might be correct, but I can not confirm those.

At the end we have 555 products in the category. maybe we need to do this again tomorrow.

In noticed some words that might indicate an origin or a specific category. It might be nice if we have alle the text extracted from image, so that we can search for those words.

The next day (16 nov 2024) I redid the search, but no additional products were to be done.

Categories

There are 46 categories used for describing pine nuts. Some of these are not relevant and the products need to be edited. A lot of US products have been put under Snacks: removed.

In total 55 products have been edited. Now 552 Pine nut products.

Ingredients

There are 207 ingredients for the pine nuts category. We expect only a few, so a lot to go through. It seems we need to add the tree species: Pinus Sibirica and Pinus Koraiensis.

In Spain they sell sugar coated pine nuts, moved to Nuts and their products.