UNSPSC 50495416: Organic cascabel pepper purees

The variety of organic peppers known as organic cascabel peppers which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50495416 Organic cascabel pepper purees (Commodity) appears rarely in state and local procurement records; the recent-opportunities block shows no solicitations explicitly matching this specific ingredient or product line. The code nominally describes a single processed agricultural product—organic pepper puree—but the recent state and local activity under related food-supply codes instead reflects broad-based procurement for institutional food service, school nutrition programs, and state facility catering that bundle dozens or hundreds of food line items. The one recent opportunity tagged to this UNSPSC number, Illinois Veterans Home Quincy's FY-27 quarterly food order (RFQ 27497DVAQUINCB52821, due June 26, 2026), lists 24 food items but does not specifically name cascabel pepper purees or any specialty pepper puree in its scope.

State and local buyers soliciting food products under neighboring UNSPSC codes are predominantly school districts (Ben Hill County Schools, Burke County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District, Fairfax County Public Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Muscogee County School System, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Douglas County School System), state agencies operating custodial or care facilities (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Oregon Department of Corrections, Illinois Veterans Home, Georgia Department of Corrections), and smaller regional food service programs. The geographic concentration of recent solicitations is strongest in Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Oregon, and Virginia, with the majority posted between January and June 2026. Most opportunities are structured as IFBs or RFPs with firm fixed pricing or cost-plus models, bid response windows of two to four weeks, and contract periods running July 1 through June 30 to align with school and state fiscal years. Specialty ingredients such as organic cascabel pepper purees are not typically solicited as standalone line items; when pepper products or condiments appear, they are bundled within larger food-supply contracts that specify preferred brands or allow approved equivalents. Pursuit of this code would benefit from monitoring whether specialty food distributors begin winning awards on disaggregated ingredient line items or whether larger contracts explicitly carve out ethnic or specialty pepper products.