Product Description |
Individually Quick Frozen Pineapple Chunks |
Origin |
India |
General Description |
IQF Pineapple chunks are produced from ripe fruit of the variety king and queen by peeling, washing, inspecting, slicing, coring and hand cutting into chunks and freezing to give a free flowing product at -18° C |
Physical parameters |
Product Size |
Length-19-25 mm |
Defects |
Limits (Average per 250gm)-Frozen |
Thickness-19-25 mm |
Width-19-25 mm(external arc) |
Foreign Matter |
Nil. |
E.V.M |
Nil |
Clumps |
< 5% |
Tolerence per 500 gm |
Total Blemishes |
3 |
Mashed Pieces |
5% |
Over Size |
10% |
Under Size |
10% |
Color Variation |
3% |
Brix |
Queen: 14±2. King: 12±3 |
Sensory Analysis |
Color |
Uniform fresh to pale yellow. |
Appearance |
Good typical and free from defects. |
Flavour |
Natural, characteristic flavour |
Texture |
Uniform soft |
Microbiological Values |
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m |
M |
Aerobic plate count |
50,000/g |
500,000/g |
Total Coliforms |
500/g |
1000/g |
E.Coli |
10/g |
50/g |
Yeast |
5,000/g |
50,000/g |
Moulds |
1,000/g |
10,000/g |
Salmonella(25 g) |
Absent/25g |
Absent/25g |
m = the microbiological limit which separates good quality from marginally acceptable quality
M = the microbiological limit which separates marginally acceptable quality from defective quality
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