UNSPSC 50376000: Canned or jarred organic pomelos

An exotic large citrus fruit that is an ancient ancestor of the common grapefruit. It is the largest of the citrus fruits with a shape that can be fairly round or slightly pointed at one end (the fruit ranges from nearly round to oblate or pear-shaped). T It has been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50376000 Canned or jarred organic pomelos (Class code) represents a narrow commodity slice within institutional food procurement, but recent state and local solicitations show minimal direct demand for canned pomelos as a specified product. Instead, jurisdictions are procuring canned and shelf-stable fruits more broadly—applesauce, mixed canned vegetables, fruit bars, and other commodity items—under much larger food-service solicitations that encompass dozens or hundreds of line items. The issuing bodies span state corrections and health departments, county boards of education, city nutrition centers, and state-supported living centers. Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in Georgia recently sought shelf-stable food items including canned proteins and canned vegetables via informal written quote (IWQ 140229, October 2026); the Oregon Department of Corrections has issued repeated competitive bids for canned applesauce (ITBs S-29100-00017453 in July 2026 and S-29100-00016975 in May–June 2026); the Texas Health and Human Services Commission solicited supplemental food and consumables across state hospitals and supported living centers, with a maximum potential value of $4.5 million over three years (IFB HHS0016792v2, March 2026); and the City of Bridgeport Board of Education Nutrition Center sought commodities including fruit and vegetable products (BNB053266, June 2026). These larger procurements dwarf any single-commodity focus on pomelos.

Recent activity clusters in Georgia, Oregon, Texas, Illinois, and Connecticut, with the largest and most frequent opportunities in Texas state agencies and Georgia school boards. However, no recent solicitation explicitly names canned or jarred organic pomelos as a line item; all identified opportunities treat fruit as one category among many within multihundred-line-item food-service contracts. Oregon Corrections and Texas HHSC have issued multiple rolling procurements for canned fruit (applesauce specifically), but none specify pomelos. This suggests that while the code technically covers the product, state and local buyers either do not specify pomelos, consolidate pomelo demand into broader commodity agreements, or source through standing cooperative purchasing vehicles or blanket orders not visible in competitive RFP/IFB/ITB notice activity. Vendors pursuing this code should expect that pomelo volume, if any, will arrive embedded in large institutional food buys requiring broad product ranges, compliance with USDA commodity standards, FDA/USDC regulations, and delivery to multiple locations with firm fixed pricing and substantial insurance requirements.