| 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 |
|
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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