UNSPSC 50341556: Frozen mutsu apples

The variety of apples known as mutsu apples that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50341556 Frozen mutsu apples (Commodity) represents a narrow food commodity with limited recent state and local procurement activity. The code captures single-variety frozen apple products, specifically mutton-variety apples processed and frozen for institutional and food-service distribution. State and local governments buying under this code procure frozen apple products for school nutrition programs, state institutional feeding (hospitals, supported living centers), county services departments, and child-care nutrition assistance programs, typically as part of broader grocery or frozen-food solicitations rather than standalone specialty purchases.

Issuing bodies soliciting frozen apple products span state departments (Texas Health and Human Services Commission for state hospitals and supported living centers, Oregon Department of Corrections), county boards of education and county commissioners, independent school districts, and federally funded child-care agencies. The Oregon Department of Corrections and Texas HHSC are repeat buyers of frozen apples and frozen fruit products for institutional meal service. Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Oregon, Georgia, and the Southeast; the most recent directly relevant opportunity is the Oregon Department of Corrections' August 2026 IFB for approximately 40,000 pounds of frozen sliced or diced apples (Solicitation S2910000017684, bids due August 19, 2026) with a 10% combined preference for Oregon goods and resident bidders, historical pricing at $0.797 per pound, and delivery to the ODOC Central Distribution Center in Salem. Broader frozen-food solicitations from the Texas HHSC (HHS0017338V1, posted July 17, 2026, bids due August 18, 2026) covering 106 line items of frozen products across state hospitals and supported living centers statewide, with estimated annual volume of $9 million, may include frozen apples within the scope but do not isolate that commodity. School districts in Georgia and Connecticut procuring fresh and frozen produce for National School Lunch Program compliance (Hancock County Schools, Early County Schools) appear to target fresh rather than frozen apples. The code shows episodic rather than continuous procurement activity; frozen mutsu apples specifically are not a high-volume commodity class in the recent state and local market.