UNSPSC 50616864: Canned or jarred Non GMO water chestnuts

The variety of Non GMO vegetable known as Non GMO water chestnuts that have been canned or jarred for preservation. This means that they are produced without the use of methods that genetically modify organisms by means that are not possible under natural conditions. Such methods include cell fusion, microencapsulation and macro-encapsulation, and recombinant DNA technology (including gene deletion, gene doubling, introducing a foreign gene, and changing the positions of genes when achieved by recombinant DNA technology).

Traditional methods of breeding, conjugation, fermentation, hybridization, in vitro fertilization, or tissue culture are considered to be non-GMO.

UNSPSC 50616864 Canned or jarred Non-GMO water chestnuts is a Commodity code that state and local governments rarely procure in isolation; the recent opportunities block contains no solicitations for this specific product. The code sits within food-service procurement, and the most recent indexed opportunity mentioning water chestnuts directly does not appear among the 23 state and local contracts posted between January and June 2026 that were tagged to this taxonomy entry. Instead, the block reflects a broader pattern of food-service spending by state agencies, school districts, and correctional facilities across the nation, with actual solicitations tracking canned tomatoes, fresh produce, bulk grocery items, and comprehensive food-service contracts rather than specialty canned vegetables by commodity.

The absence of water-chestnut-specific opportunities signals low or intermittent demand for this product line under this code. School nutrition programs, state health and human services facilities, and correctional departments represented in the recent block—including the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Oregon Department of Corrections, Illinois Veterans Homes, Ben Hill County Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Douglas County School System, Muscogee County School District, Liberty County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, and Rockwood R-VI School District—do issue broad food procurement RFPs, RFQs, and IFBs with dozens or hundreds of line items, but none of the indexed records name canned water chestnuts as a bid item. Code 50616864 may see occasional activity when school nutrition programs or institutional food services expand menu options or when regional distributors aggregate specialty items into larger food-supply contracts, but the pattern shown here suggests the code is inactive or carries minimal volume compared to mainstream canned-vegetable codes. Vendors pursuing this UNSPSC code should monitor school district and state institutional-food solicitations as bundled opportunities where water chestnuts might appear as a line item within broader grocery or canned-goods categories rather than expect standalone procurement notices.