Product Description |
Individually Quick Frozen Melon Balls |
Variety |
Cantaloupe |
Origin |
India |
Raw Material |
Quick frozen melon balls are prepared from fresh, clean, sound, ripened melons which are washed sliced into 4 oblong cuts and scooped out into spheres of 20 mm in diameter. |
Treatment |
No food additives used |
Physical parameters |
Defects |
Limits (Average per 250gm)-Frozen |
F.M |
Absent |
E.V.M |
Absent |
Blemishes |
Nil |
Undersize (<18 mm) |
5% |
Oversize (>22 mm) |
5% |
Damaged balls |
3% |
Product Size |
Free flowing spheres of the size 20±2 mm.The melon balls are made from fresh ripe melon slices vertically cut.80% of spherical unit will be 3/4th or more of a sphere.10% will be ½ of sphere. |
Organoleptic properties |
Appearance |
Good, free flowing spheres |
Color |
Uniform consistently ripe and typical |
Flavor |
Natural,delicate flavor of melon no off flavors
present. |
Brix |
7° min |
Microbiological Values |
|
m |
M |
Aerobic plate count |
50,000/g |
500,000/g |
Total Coliforms |
500/g |
1000/g |
E.Coli |
10/g |
50/g |
Yeast |
5,000/g |
50,000/g |
Moulds |
1,000/g |
10,000/g |
Salmonella(25 g) |
Absent/25g |
Absent/25g |
m = the microbiological limit which separates good quality from marginally acceptable quality
M = the microbiological limit which separates marginally acceptable quality from defective quality |
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