UNSPSC 50422701: Dried celebrity celery

The variety of celery known as celebrity celery that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50422701 Dried celebrity celery, a Commodity code, does not appear in recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope—a specialty dried vegetable product—bears no relation to the opportunities posted under it in the source materials, which consistently solicit broad-based food service supplies for schools, correctional facilities, and child nutrition programs. The single recent opportunity explicitly tagged to this code is the City of Edinburg, Texas CACFP Meal Program RFP (RFP 2026-017, due August 4, 2026), which calls for five supply categories spanning beverages, paper goods, general food products, janitorial supplies, and nonfood items; dried celebrity celery does not feature in the scope. The remaining opportunities historically classified under this code actually solicit dried beans, fresh produce, cafeteria food products, and master grocery contracts—categories that belong in broader commodity families covering staple ingredients, fresh goods, or prepared foods, not a single specialty ingredient.

This mismatch signals either a legacy tagging error or a systematic misclassification by the issuing bodies. State and local procurement professionals evaluating this code should treat it as dormant for sourcing purposes. The activity shown—spanning Texas school districts, Oregon and Georgia corrections departments, Missouri school districts, and Georgia school systems across Q1–Q3 2026—represents food-service category buys (IFBs, RFPs, ITBs with response dates from late February through August) that do not align with dried celebrity celery procurement. Vendors in specialty dried-vegetable products should monitor broader UNSPSC families covering ingredients, dried goods, or produce to locate authentic opportunities rather than rely on this code's recent posting history.