# Cleaning the index values and aggregating the counts of ingredients

top_ingredient_counts = {}

for ingredient, count in top_ingredient_series_sorted.items():
    top_ingredient_cleaned = ingredient.replace('[', '').replace(']', '').replace("'", "")
    if top_ingredient_cleaned in top_ingredient_counts:
        top_ingredient_counts[top_ingredient_cleaned] += count
    else:
        top_ingredient_counts[top_ingredient_cleaned] = count
top_ingredient_series_cleaned = pd.Series(top_ingredient_counts, dtype = int)
print(top_ingredient_series_cleaned)