UNSPSC 50342500: Frozen cherries

Any of numerous trees and shrubs (genus prunus) of the rose family that bear pale yellow to deep red or blackish smooth-skinned drupes enclosing a smooth seed and that include some cultivated for their fruits or ornamental flowers that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50342500 Frozen cherries, a Class code, represents a narrow commodity within institutional food procurement — state and local buyers use this code to source shelf-stable frozen fruit for institutional kitchens, child care programs, and food distribution services. Recent solicitations under this code show state and local governments purchasing frozen fruits and vegetables as part of broader food-service bundles rather than as standalone line items; the code sits within larger grocery or food-supply procurements where frozen cherries compete alongside dozens of other proteins, produce, and pantry staples.

Activity under this code remains thin when traced through recent opportunities. The Georgia, Texas, New Jersey, and Oregon solicitations that mention frozen products (including the Oregon Department of Corrections' August 2026 procurement of frozen sliced or diced apples for approximately 40,000 pounds at $0.797 per pound from prior awardee Robbins Sales) treat frozen fruit as a commodity within multi-category food tenders, not as standalone cherry procurements. The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners (Georgia), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (Florida), Hancock County Board of Education (Georgia), Early County Board of Education (Georgia), Head Start of Greater Dallas, and multiple Texas Health and Human Services Commission state-hospital and state-supported-living-center facilities have all posted food tenders in the past four months, but specific frozen-cherry line items do not surface in the summaries provided. State institutions (hospitals, supported-living centers), county school districts, and transit or regional parks are the primary issuing bodies in the recent-opportunity cohort. No isolated frozen-cherry solicitation appears in the current dataset; vendors pursue this commodity as part of standing-offer food-service or grocery contracts where specification compliance, delivery logistics, and price per unit of measure drive award decisions.