Category/Fresh vegetables

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Fresh vegetables are plant-based foods that have undergone no processing. These products have only 1 ingredient.

Potatoes are for OFF not vegetables as they must be analysed differently.

Categories

Supercategories

Subcategories

Related categories

  • Fresh potato vegetable mixes/ Fresh plant based mixes - these are packages that contain fresh potatoes AND fresh vegetables to create a specific meal
  • Frozen vegetables seems opposite
  • Canned vegetable is opposite as well

Ingredients

This category should contain only one ingredient: vegetable

Allowed ingredients

  • Condiment is sometimes triggered if the ingredient is paprika. In some languages paprika can mean the spice AND the vegetable.

Forbidden ingredients

  • Potato - potatoes are not vegetables, so there should none in this category;
  • Salt - this ingredient is an indication that it either a prepared vegetable or a canned vegetable, or ..
  • Oil and fat - these should be under prepared vegetables
  • Legumes - have a separate category: Fresh legumes

Nutritional information

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
Fruit (%) 99
Nutritional score -9 8

Monitoring

The Mirabelle monitoring envelopes:

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

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