UNSPSC 50335200: Dried organic passion fruit

The nearly round or ovoid fruit, 1-1/2 to 3 inches wide, has a tough rind that is smooth and waxy and ranging in hue from dark purple with faint, fine white specks, to light yellow or pumpkin-color. Within is a cavity more or less filled with an aromatic mass of double walled, membranous sacs containing orange-colored, pulpy juice and as many as 250 small, hard, dark brown or black, pitted seeds. The unique flavor is appealing, musky, guava-like and sweet/tart to tart.

The yellow form has generally larger fruit than the purple, but the pulp of the purple is less acid, richer in aroma and flavor, and has a higher proportion of juice It has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50335200 Dried organic passion fruit is a Class code that sees little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code nominally covers organic passion fruit in dried form, but the recent opportunities tagged with this code span fresh produce, canned goods, frozen entrees, dairy, proteins, and prepared foods for school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and general food service operations — none of which align with the narrowly defined scope of dried organic passion fruit. School districts, county boards of education, state departments, and correctional facilities are the primary issuing bodies across the recent opportunities, and they solicit food products through IFB, RFP, and ITB vehicles with response dates ranging from February through June 2026. The only solicitation explicitly naming dried fruit — Santa Clara County's ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 for dried fruits and nuts at Elmwood Correctional Facility — called for dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans, with no mention of passion fruit. A second opportunity, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IW236532, solicited whole pitted dried prunes in U.S. Grade B quality with a 1,400-box minimum order, again without passion fruit.

Geographic activity is scattered across Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, California, Virginia, and Missouri, with concentrations in school district nutrition programs (Hancock County Schools in Georgia, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Rockwood R-VI in Missouri, Liberty County Board of Education in Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia, Douglas County School System in Georgia) and state corrections and county detention operations. The code shows no sustained procurement pipeline for dried organic passion fruit specifically, and business development pursuit under this code would require explicit evidence of a buyer's need for that commodity before investing in qualification or proposal development.