UNSPSC 50436822: Dried organic dasheen

The type of organic vegetable known as organic dasheen that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50436822 Dried organic dasheen, a Commodity code, does not map to state and local procurement activity in the recent opportunities record. The code names a specific agricultural product — dried taro root (dasheen) — but none of the 14 most recent state and local solicitations under or near this code involve dried organic dasheen. Instead, the opportunities cluster around broad food-service procurement for schools, corrections facilities, and child nutrition programs: the City of Edinburg, Texas, soliciting CACFP meal program supplies (RFP2026017, due August 4, 2026); the Oregon Department of Corrections requesting dried pinto and red beans and dried pinto beans separately (S2910000017140 and S2910000016233); the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Comptroller's Office procuring cafeteria food products across five geographic areas (IFB 304T26300CF); and multiple school districts (Fairfax County, Rockwood R-VI, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County, and Douglas County in Georgia) soliciting fresh produce, grocery items, and food distribution services. These opportunities reflect institutional food-service demand for staple proteins, grains, fresh produce, dairy, and prepared items — not specialty dried root vegetables.

The mismatch between code and opportunity suggests the code either sees no recent state and local procurement activity or has been misapplied to generalist food-service buys. Vendors pursuing institutional food supply should monitor family-level and class-level codes governing fresh produce (50360000 range), dried beans and legumes, and general food products rather than the dried organic dasheen commodity. The active jurisdictions — Texas municipalities and state corrections agencies, Georgia school districts and county systems, Oregon state corrections, Missouri school districts, and Virginia county schools — show sustained quarterly and annual solicitation cycles for food services, but none explicitly name dried dasheen as a required or optional item.