UNSPSC 50321700: Dried bananas

An elongated usually tapering tropical fruit with soft pulpy flesh enclosed in a soft usually yellow rind produced by any of several widely cultivated perennial herbs (genus musa of the family musaceae, the banana family) that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50321700 Dried bananas is a Class code that covers a narrow product line with minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities tagged to this code show little alignment with dried bananas specifically. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department (January 2026) solicited dried fruits and nuts including raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans — but not dried bananas — for a correctional facility food service contract on a five-year term with firm Year 1 pricing and capped annual increases in Years 2–5. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (February 2026) issued a separate solicitation (IW236532) for whole, pitted, dried prunes in U.S. Grade B quality, 60–70 count size, packed in 25-pound boxes, with a minimum order of 1,400 boxes for Delivery Area 1; this procurement shows the dried-fruit category active in state purchasing but does not directly address dried bananas. Across the broader opportunities block, school nutrition programs dominate recent solicitations — Hancock County Schools (Georgia), Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut), Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), and Douglas County School System (Georgia) all posted fresh-produce and grocery-item IFBs or RFPs in the January–June 2026 window — but none specified dried bananas as a line item or category.

The code shows activity primarily in the correctional food-service and school nutrition sectors, with Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, Virginia, and California representing recent procurement locations. However, the opportunities are tagged to this code without substantive content matching dried bananas as a purchased commodity. School nutrition IFBs specify fresh produce (apples, berries, vegetables, citrus) and processed grocery items with firm fixed pricing for 12-month contract periods and delivery to multiple school sites; correctional facility procurements emphasize dried fruits, nuts, and proteins with USDA grade certification and compliance requirements. No representative opportunity in the recent block explicitly solicits dried bananas. This code appears underutilized or mislabeled in current state and local purchasing datasets, limiting visibility into actual demand for dried bananas as a standalone procurement item.