Food spoilage

Food spoilage - process in which food deteriorates to the point in which it is not edible to humans or its quality of edibility becomes reduced. Article “Food spoilage” in English Wikipedia has 48.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Food spoilage” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Food spoilage”, its content was written by 87 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 129 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 117 times in English Wikipedia and cited 195 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26772 in September 2013
• Global: #79722 in July 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #90175 in October 2020
• Global: #151801 in October 2020

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hebrew (he) קלקול מזון		63.3608
2	English (en) Food spoilage		48.7776
3	Hindi (hi) खाद्य विकृति		48.0078
4	Malay (ms) Makanan rosak		46.994
5	French (fr) Altération des aliments		29.9627
6	Persian (fa) فساد خوراک		25.4915
7	Arabic (ar) فساد الأغذية		20.1418
8	Chinese (zh) 食物变质		19.7605
9	Vietnamese (vi) Ôi thiu		6.8144

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Food spoilage" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Food spoilage		1 302 594
2	Arabic (ar) فساد الأغذية		82 953
3	Malay (ms) Makanan rosak		38 188
4	Chinese (zh) 食物变质		17 620
5	Vietnamese (vi) Ôi thiu		15 324
6	French (fr) Altération des aliments		14 616
7	Hindi (hi) खाद्य विकृति		7 127
8	Hebrew (he) קלקול מזון		361
9	Persian (fa) فساد خوراک		320

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Food spoilage" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Food spoilage		3 734
2	Chinese (zh) 食物变质		155
3	French (fr) Altération des aliments		129
4	Arabic (ar) فساد الأغذية		92
5	Vietnamese (vi) Ôi thiu		82
6	Malay (ms) Makanan rosak		43
7	Hindi (hi) खाद्य विकृति		25
8	Hebrew (he) קלקול מזון		20
9	Persian (fa) فساد خوراک		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Food spoilage" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Food spoilage		87
2	Arabic (ar) فساد الأغذية		9
3	French (fr) Altération des aliments		8
4	Vietnamese (vi) Ôi thiu		6
5	Chinese (zh) 食物变质		6
6	Malay (ms) Makanan rosak		5
7	Persian (fa) فساد خوراک		3
8	Hebrew (he) קלקול מזון		3
9	Hindi (hi) खाद्य विकृति		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Food spoilage" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Food spoilage		1
2	Arabic (ar) فساد الأغذية		0
3	Persian (fa) فساد خوراک		0
4	French (fr) Altération des aliments		0
5	Hebrew (he) קלקול מזון		0
6	Hindi (hi) खाद्य विकृति		0
7	Malay (ms) Makanan rosak		0
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ôi thiu		0
9	Chinese (zh) 食物变质		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Food spoilage" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Food spoilage		117
2	Chinese (zh) 食物变质		36
3	Vietnamese (vi) Ôi thiu		16
4	Arabic (ar) فساد الأغذية		13
5	Hebrew (he) קלקול מזון		5
6	French (fr) Altération des aliments		4
7	Hindi (hi) खाद्य विकृति		2
8	Persian (fa) فساد خوراک		1
9	Malay (ms) Makanan rosak		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فساد الأغذية
en	English Food spoilage
fa	Persian فساد خوراک
fr	French Altération des aliments
he	Hebrew קלקול מזון
hi	Hindi खाद्य विकृति
ms	Malay Makanan rosak
vi	Vietnamese Ôi thiu
zh	Chinese 食物变质

Best Rank

English: #90175 10.2020

Global: #151801 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #26772 09.2013

Global: #79722 07.2021

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