UNSPSC 50425501: Dried ajies peppers

The variety of peppers known as ajies peppers that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50425501 Dried ajies peppers (Commodity) does not appear in recent state and local procurement activity. The source includes thirteen recent opportunities tagged across food procurement codes, but none of them specifically solicit dried ajies peppers or closely related chile pepper products as a line item.

The recent opportunities do show substantial state and local food procurement activity across dried legumes, fresh produce, and general grocery supply. The Oregon Department of Corrections has issued two separate ITBs for dried pinto and red beans (127,500 pounds in March 2026 and 42,500 pounds in June 2026), and school districts across Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Virginia are actively soliciting grocery and produce items for child nutrition programs. However, the commodity code for dried ajies peppers—a specific chile pepper variety—remains inactive in the visible market. This pattern suggests either that public-sector food service operations do not routinely stock this specialty item, or that procurement officers classify similar products under broader commodity codes for dried vegetables or spices rather than under a dedicated code for a single chile pepper species. Firms pursuing this code should verify whether state and local nutrition programs and correctional food service operations incorporate dried ajies peppers into their standard menus or whether demand exists primarily through specialty-food or ethnic-foods procurement channels outside the standard UNSPSC-tagged competitive solicitation process.