IQF grade B strabwerry specification

Specifications of strawberries grade B

Variety

Senga sengana/Am13/Honey

Normal standards

Uncalibrated, not all fruits are whole. There’s broken, damaged, mis-shape ones, free from any foreign substance.

 - IQF - separatly frozen

Clumps less than 3 fruits            under 2% by weight

 - without stem

100%

 - ripe fruits

min. 95% by weight

 - unripe fruits

max. 5%  by weight

 - leaves

max. 2 pieces per 10 kg

 - Brix level

Min 6.5 up

 - colour

Min 95% fruits are fine red colour, 5% fruits are with white part.

 - typical taste and smell

without any off-taste

 - without oxidizing changes

 - without foreign materials (metal, glass, sand, plastic, soil)

 - no deviant faults caused by illness or pest

 - wihout pathogen microorganisms

 - without GMO

 - without residues of pesticides

by WHO standards

 - contents of heavy metals

by WHO standards

Microbiology

 - Total plate count

less 10 000/g

 - Moulds

less 1 000/g

 - Yeasts

less 1 000/g

 - Salmonellae

No