UNSPSC 50301704: Cavendish bananas

The variety of bananas known as cavendish bananas

UNSPSC 50301704 Cavendish bananas, a Commodity code, covers single-produce-line institutional food service sourcing for school nutrition programs, child and adult care food programs, and detention facilities. State and local governments buy bananas as a discrete line item within broader meal procurement, often as part of weekly fresh produce deliveries to school cafeterias, early childhood centers, and correctional food services. Recent solicitations show bananas requested by name and specification (petite varieties, ripeness stages, case pack counts) alongside complementary fresh fruits and vegetables, distinguishing them from broader produce category buys.

School districts dominate the issuing-body mix—Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida), Bryan County Schools (Georgia), Dougherty County Board of Education (Georgia), Henry County Schools (Georgia), Glynn County Board of Education (Georgia), Austin Independent School District (Texas), and multiple other Georgia school systems have posted opportunities naming bananas or fresh produce explicitly. Head Start and child care programs (City of Edinburg CACFP, Head Start of Greater Dallas) also source bananas routinely. Activity concentrates in Georgia and Texas school systems, with additional documented solicitations in Wisconsin, Florida, Connecticut, Mississippi, and California. Madison Metropolitan School District issued RFB 4162 for petite bananas on July 8, 2026, due July 29, 2026, specifying 70–90 cases weekly at 150-count case packs, ripeness stage 3.5–4.5 per Chiquita standards, with estimated annual contract value of $78,000 and delivery between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. Monday through Friday to the Food Production Center. Bryan County School Nutrition Program (Georgia) issued a sealed-bid procurement due May 27, 2026, for approximately 1,024 cases of bananas annually as part of school year 2026–2027 fresh produce supply. Bananas appear frequently in broader school nutrition food-and-produce RFPs and RFBs posted between January and July 2026, typically as one of 40–72 produce line items with estimated case quantities in the hundreds to low thousands annually per school district, making them a recurring, modest-volume commodity within larger institutional meal contracts rather than standalone procurement drivers.