| Product Description |
Individually Quick Frozen Melon Balls |
| Variety |
Cantaloupe |
| Origin |
India |
| Raw Material |
Quick frozen melon balls are prepared from fresh, clean, sound, ripened melons which are washed sliced into 4 oblong cuts and scooped out into spheres of 20 mm in diameter. |
| Treatment |
No food additives used |
| Physical parameters |
| Defects |
Limits (Average per 250gm)-Frozen |
| F.M |
Absent |
| E.V.M |
Absent |
| Blemishes |
Nil |
| Undersize (<18 mm) |
5% |
| Oversize (>22 mm) |
5% |
| Damaged balls |
3% |
| Product Size |
Free flowing spheres of the size 20±2 mm.The melon balls are made from fresh ripe melon slices vertically cut.80% of spherical unit will be 3/4th or more of a sphere.10% will be ½ of sphere. |
| Organoleptic properties |
| Appearance |
Good, free flowing spheres |
| Color |
Uniform consistently ripe and typical |
| Flavor |
Natural,delicate flavor of melon no off flavors
present. |
| Brix |
7° min |
| Microbiological Values |
|
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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