UNSPSC 50484821: Woodear mushroom purees

The variety of mushrooms known as woodear mushrooms which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50484821 Woodear mushroom purees is a Commodity code. State and local governments rarely procure woodear mushroom purees directly; the code appears in procurement data as a byproduct of broader food-service solicitations that tag items at the granular UNSPSC level. Recent state and local opportunities show no dedicated procurements for this ingredient. Instead, the code surfaces incidentally within much larger food-supply contracts issued by school districts, state health agencies, and correctional facilities that purchase hundreds of food items spanning proteins, produce, dairy, canned goods, and prepared foods as part of weekly meal fulfillment. When woodear mushroom purees appear at all, they are embedded as one line item among 200–900 items in statewide institutional food buys.

The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia; Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri; Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools in Georgia; Burke County Public Schools in Georgia; Liberty County Board of Education in Georgia; Douglas County School System in Georgia; Muscogee County School District in Georgia) and state health and corrections agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Oregon Department of Corrections, Illinois Veterans Home, and Ben Hill County Schools). Texas HHSC has issued multiple statewide food-and-consumables IFBs spanning 200–210 line items with estimated values from $1.5 million to $4.5 million. Procurement activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Missouri, Illinois, and Virginia, with school nutrition programs representing the largest share of recent solicitations. Representative opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB HHS0017449 for supplemental food and consumables (due July 13, 2026, with a prior-period historical value of $1.5 million for a single facility); Fairfax County Public Schools Master Grocery K-12 IFB 2000004323 (due April 27, 2026, covering delivery to 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens); Rockwood R-VI School District Child Nutrition Services grocery and NOI procurements (due April 29, 2026, covering approximately 200–900 line items for 6,900 lunch and 900 breakfast participants); and the Georgia Department of Education food procurements serving 30 districts through cooperative-purchasing vehicles with estimated annual spend of $4.4 million for one geographic area alone. The Oregon Department of Corrections has issued multiple line-item food procurements (canned tomatoes, tomato paste) with firm deadlines and historical pricing references. None of these opportunities isolates or prioritizes mushroom purees; the code is a taxonomy classification within much larger institutional food-supply contracts where specialty or processed vegetables compete with core commodity items.