UNSPSC 50426858: Dried taro shoot

The type of vegetable known as taro shoot that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50426858 Dried taro shoot is a Commodity code that does not align with the state and local procurement activity currently tagged under it. The recent opportunities attributed to this code overwhelmingly span broad food supply categories for school districts, corrections departments, and child care programs—dried beans, fresh produce, fresh eggs, cafeteria staples, and groceries for institutional meal services—rather than dried taro shoot specifically. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding in the source data or that dried taro shoot is an extremely narrow item within larger commodity procurements that are classified at the Commodity tier by mistake. School districts and state agencies are the dominant issuing bodies, with Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Oregon, and Virginia showing the most recent activity. None of the nine opportunities explicitly names dried taro shoot as a line item or requirement.

The actual demand visible in these solicitations centers on bulk food supply for institutional nutrition programs serving 400 to 32,000 meals daily. Representative procurements include the City of Edinburg, Texas, RFP 2026017 for CACFP meal program supplies (due August 4, 2026, serving 400 children), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Invitation for Bid 304T26300CF for cafeteria food products across multiple warehouse locations (due May 4, 2026, spanning 382 line items), the Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri RFP for grocery items covering over 900 line items for the 2026–27 school year (due April 29, 2026), and the Douglas County School System RFP SN 26-003 for food supply and distribution to serve approximately 25,500 students with an estimated annual expenditure of $9,000,000 (due February 18, 2026). No procurement activity under this code naming dried taro shoot has been posted in the recent opportunities block.