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;

Subcategories

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:

  • Fresh carrots (Mirabelle) last checked 26-jun-2023
  • Frozen carrots (Mirabelle) last checked 26-jun-2023
  • Canned carrots (Mirabelle) last checked 26-jun-2023

References