Confused about the getCombinedIngredients function

public function getCombinedIngredients()
    {
        $ingredients = array();
        foreach ($this->recipes as $recipe) {
            foreach ($recipe->getIngredients() as $ing) {
               $item = $ing["item"];
               if (strpos($item, ","))  {
                  $item = strstr($item, ",", true);
               }    
               if (substr($item, -1) == "s" && array_key_exists(rtrim($item, "s"), $ingredients)) {
                    $item = rtrim($item, "s");
               } else if (array_key_exists($item. "s", $ingredients)) {
                 $item .="s";

               }
                $ingredients[$ing["item"]] = array(
                  $ing["amount"],
                  $ing["measure"]
                );


                }
        }
        return $ingredients;

OK, so the above code is, I think, the exact code for the getCombinedingredients function demonstrated in the video. I have typed it out manually following along from the video. I checked and checked it again. But I still get both the'Eggs' and 'Eggs, Beaten' items displayed to the browser, whereas Alena only gets a singular 'Egg' item.

This is very confusing. I thought maybe the $ingredients array needed to be unset because it was being modified by each successive execution of code, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

In my result it would appear that the first if statement, that is supposed to only return the portion of a string before a comma, is not working. In Alena's video all the items that have string content separated by a comma have been stripped to just the portion before the comma. In my code none of them have. So the problem seems to be there. Any help Welcome.

What makes it more difficult to figure out is that the code in the downloadable files has different logic to that demonstrated in the video and goes as follows:

public function getCombinedIngredients()
    {
        $ingredients = array();
        foreach ($this->recipes as $recipe) {
            foreach ($recipe->getIngredients() as $i) {
                $item = $i['item'];
                if (strpos($item, ",")) {
                    $item = strstr($item, ",", true);
                }
                if (in_array($item . "s", $ingredients)) {
                    $item .= "s";
                } else if (in_array(substr($item,0,-1),$ingredients)) {
                    $item = substr($ingredient,0,-1);
                }
                $ingredients[$item][] = array($i["amount"],$i["measure"]);
            }
        }
        return $ingredients;
    }

using this logic returns one plural 'Eggs'. Rather than just a singlar 'Egg' as per the video. Whilst it is useful to see an alternative way of doing it, it doesn't help at all with comprehending the logic. For the files to be valuable as a teaching aid they need to be consistent with the video surely?

It is a little bit disappointing to see that a number of other students have had the same difficulty with this same bit of code over the last few years and no representative from Treehouse has provided and answer or assisted. Students are also commenting that the download files don't match the video, some as long as three years ago. And still it hasn't been revised? It's really good to have challenging teaching material like this, but it is very frustrating to feel you have to move on from a video without feeling you have entirely understood the logic. Please can someone kind from Treehouse help here.