UNSPSC 50424104: Dried caraway

The variety of herbs known as caraway that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50424104 Dried caraway is a Commodity code that in practice does not map to recent state and local procurement activity. The most recent sourced opportunities tagged under this code are actually food service procurements covering broad shelf-stable and fresh grocery assortments—peanut butter, canned proteins, rice, pasta, frozen vegetables, dairy, condiments, and cafeteria entrees—rather than specialty dried spices. The code appears to reflect a classification mismatch between the UNSPSC taxonomy and the work actually being bought. State and local issuing bodies treating caraway as a line item within larger food-service buys tend to tag those procurements at the broader grocery-family or commodity-class level rather than at individual dried-spice codes.

Issuing bodies soliciting food-service groceries include state health and human services departments, state criminal-justice agencies, county boards of commissioners, state facilities, and special districts. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on behalf of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) appear repeatedly in the recent record, with multiple IFBs issued for food service supplies to state hospitals, state supported living centers, and correctional facilities across Texas. Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in Georgia and the State of Illinois have also posted food-service solicitations. Geographic concentration is evident in Texas, which accounts for the largest share of recent activity, followed by Georgia and Illinois. Representative recent opportunities include HHSC's IFB HHS0017798 for canteen and food service groceries at Mexia State Supported Living Center (response due August 25, 2026), TDCJ's IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products across five warehouse locations (extended response due May 4, 2026), and Gwinnett County's informal written quote for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items for the Department of Community Services (response due October 19, 2026). None of these procurements isolate dried caraway as a standalone line item or specify quantity or pricing for the commodity alone.