Green Peas

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IQF Green Peas are the product prepared from sound, fresh, free from insect or fungal infection, clean peas of suitable maturity, which are depodded, washed, sufficiently blanched to inactivate enzymes and to ensure adequate stability of color, flavour during normal marketing cycles.IQF Green Peas should conform to the characteristics of the species Pisum sativum L..

Description

The IQF Green Peas should posses good color, flavor, body, and to be manufactured under highly sanitary conditions. The product should be packed in food grade packing material and stored below -18° C.

Specification

Tolerance of Defects:
Sr no.	Parameters	Acceptable Limits
Physical Characteristics		For Bulk & 5Kg Packing	For Consumer Packing
1.	Color	Green	Green
2.	Odor	No off odor	No off odor
3.	Taste	Characteristic Sweet	Characteristic Sweet
4.	Texture	Tender	Tender
5.	Size	7 – 12 mm	7 – 12 mm
6.	Shape	Spherical	Spherical
7.	Blemish	Below 3.0 %	Below 1.5 %
8.	Seriously Blemish	Below 4.0 %	Below 0.5 %
9.	Blond	Below 3.0 %	Below 0.5 %
10.	Fragments	Below 5 %	Below 3 %
11.	Infected	Below 0.5%	Below 0.5%
12.	Extraneous Vegetable Matter	0.5%	Nil
13.	Foreign Material	Nil	Nil
Chemical Characteristics
1.	Peroxidase	– ve
Microbiological Standards
1.	Total Plate Count	Less than 100000 cfu/g
2.	Coliform	Less than 1000 cfu/g
3.	Yeast & Mould	Less than 1000 cfu/g
4.	E Coli	Absent in cfu/g
5.	Salmonella	Absent in 25g
6.	Staphylococcus Aureus	Absent in 25g
7.	Listeria Monocytogens	Absent in 25g
Packaging: Bulk packing in HDPE 30 kg Bags with food grade inner liner, Consumer packing as per customer requirement
Shelf Life: 18 months from date of manufacturing
Storage Condition: -18 oC or below
Delivery: In refrigerated vans to maintain product temperature below -18 oC