Name:
Frozen avocado chunks
Country of origin:
Peru
Species:
Hass
Food processing:
Iqf (individual quick frozing)
Product requirements:
The avocado must exhibit a healthy and freshly harvested appearance and must be separate, not adhering to one another and/or must be easily separable. Green-yellow creamy, typical of fresh avocado and variety.
Color:
Green, typical avocado color
Texture:
Tender, not collapsed, not fibred, uniform ripe. The fruit must be of hard consistency in a frozen state and must be of adequately stable consistency in a thawed state against mechanical and thermal influences.
Taste & smell:
Of ripe avocado, slightly sour.
Other physical characteristics:
- The frozen avocado chunks are free of spoilage, damages inflicted by insects or diseases, hard and woody parts, foreign elements of plant, animal and mineral origin, sediments, freeze burn, partly or totally unripe fruits, not fibred.
- Avocado chunks are uniform in shape and color.
Quemical characteristics:
- Contains citric acid, ascorbic acid, sugar, salt, sodium alginate
- Oil content: ≥ 9%
- Humidity: 90%
- Unripe fruit (green or white): 2% max.
- Oil content: ≥ 9%
- Biological damage: Absence