UNSPSC 50307238: Ceylon Olive

The Ceylon Olive (Elaeocarpus serratus L.; family Elaeocarpaceae) also known as the Veralu or veralakkai is a tropical fruit found in the Indian Subcontinent, Indo-China and South East Asia. It is an ornamental medium sized tree indigenous to Sri Lanka, producing smooth, ovoid green fruits. The fruit has nutritive and medicinal values.

UNSPSC 50307238 Ceylon Olive is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific food product — Ceylon olive — yet the most recent opportunities posted under or near this code span school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and child-nutrition meal plans that procure broad grocery assortments including proteins, dairy, produce, snacks, and consumables rather than olives or olive products specifically. The disconnect between the code's narrow product scope and the actual work being solicited suggests either miscategorization by issuing bodies or a data-integrity gap in the source.

When examined for patterns in the actual opportunities, the issuing bodies include state health and human services commissions, county boards of education, city procurement offices, and special authorities such as Invest Atlanta. Georgia school districts (Tattnall County, Candler County, Colquitt County, Effingham County, and Richmond County) and Texas agencies (HHSC, TDCJ, City of Edinburg) account for the bulk of recent activity. Representative work includes the Oregon Department of Administrative Services seeking pickled vegetables (IFB S2910000018089, due October 13, 2026), the City of Bridgeport requesting over 1,100 grocery line items for school nutrition (BNB052266, due June 30, 2026), the Texas Health and Human Services Commission procuring food service groceries for Mexia State Supported Living Center (IFB HHS0017799, due August 25, 2026), and multiple Georgia school boards issuing sealed bids for school-year food and paper supplies. Because the opportunities show no pattern of Ceylon-olive-specific procurement and the code itself appears orphaned from current sourcing activity, the code presents minimal pursuit opportunity absent a clear signal that issuing bodies intend to use it for broader food-product categories going forward.