UNSPSC 50327025: Dried plantains

The type of fruit known as plantain that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50327025 Dried plantains (Commodity) does not appear in recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope—dried plantain products for institutional food service—finds no match in the recent opportunities block, which contains eleven school nutrition, corrections food service, and emergency food-supply solicitations issued between January and June 2026 across Georgia, Connecticut, Missouri, California, and Texas. Those opportunities name fresh produce (apples, berries, vegetables, citrus), proteins, dairy, grains, canned goods, and prepared entrees as primary line items; one solicitation (Santa Clara County, January 2026) covers dried fruits and nuts (raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, pecans), and another (Texas TDCJ, April 2026) includes dried prunes, but neither names plantains. School districts dominating the activity—Hancock County Schools (Georgia), Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI (Missouri), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), and Douglas County School System (Georgia)—solicit annual term contracts for comprehensive food supplies under IFB and RFP notice types with response dates between April and June 2026. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Santa Clara County, and the State of Georgia also appear as repeat buyers for corrections and state-agency food procurement.

The absence of dried plantain solicitations in this dataset does not indicate zero market activity, but rather suggests the commodity either commands minimal volume in institutional food service or appears bundled under broader produce codes rather than isolated as a line item. Firms pursuing this code should monitor school-district nutrition RFPs and corrections food-service solicitations in the Southeast and California, where recent activity concentrates, and cross-reference dried-fruit and specialty-produce line items in those bids. The code's quarterly or annual cyclicality will track the school-year procurement calendar (bids typically due April–June for July 2026 start dates), making seasonal monitoring more cost-effective than continuous tracking.