UNSPSC 50327011: Dried elderberries

The type of fruit known as elderberries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50327011 Dried elderberries is a Commodity code that describes a single agricultural product line—processed dried fruit in bulk form—purchased primarily by school districts and correctional facilities as a component of broader food-service procurement. The code shows minimal direct solicitation activity; instead, dried elderberries surface as line items within larger fresh and dried produce contracts that school nutrition programs and institutional food services issue as part of annual grocery supply chains. State and local purchasing offices tag these opportunities with produce and food-supply family codes far more frequently than with the specific elderberry commodity, so detection of elderberry demand requires monitoring broader food-procurement RFPs and IFBs rather than tracking standalone elderberry solicitations.

Recent state and local opportunities underscore the absence of dedicated dried elderberry procurement. The County of Santa Clara issued an Invitation to Bids in January 2026 for dried fruits and nuts to support correctional food services, but the scope covered raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans—no elderberries. School districts across Georgia, Missouri, Texas, Connecticut, and Virginia have issued comprehensive annual food-supply and fresh-produce contracts (Douglas County Schools' RFP 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 districts, Hancock County Schools' IFB for fresh produce under SY27, Liberty County Board of Education's food procurement, and Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 term contract) that enumerate dozens of produce line items but do not explicitly reference dried elderberries. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB for cafeteria food products and the Rockwood R-VI School District's child nutrition services grocery procurement similarly focus on mainstream produce, proteins, grains, and prepared items. No recent state or local RFP, RFQ, IFB, or ITB in the source material names dried elderberries as a solicited item, indicating either minimal current demand for this commodity within state and local food service, categorization misalignment between procurement practice and UNSPSC taxonomy, or procurement activity too sparse to surface in recent high-volume school and correctional food-supply contracting.