IQF Peas
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Detailed description
Nivex grows mangetout and sugar snap peas for European retailers and freezes them as whole pods. Pods are topped and tailed, blanched and individually quick frozen to keep their bright green colour and crunch. Mangetout has flat pods with small, immature peas; sugar snaps have rounded, fleshy pods. Both are eaten whole, pod included, in stir-fries, ready meals and vegetable blends.
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Product: IQF mangetout (snow peas) and IQF sugar snap peas, whole pods
Botanical name: Mangetout: Pisum sativum var. saccharatum. Sugar snap peas: Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon
Origin: Egypt
Harvest season: Approx. November to April [confirm]; frozen stock available all year
Ingredients: 100% mangetout; 100% sugar snap peas
Process: Harvest, cooling, washing, topping and tailing, blanching, cooling, IQF freezing, sorting, metal detection, packing. Sugar snap peas: strings removed on request
Pod length (mm): Mangetout 60–100; sugar snap peas 50–90
Pod shape: Mangetout: flat, thin-walled; peas small and immature. Sugar snap peas: rounded, thick-walled and fleshy
Colour: Bright, uniform green
Texture: Mangetout: tender and crisp. Sugar snap peas: crisp and fleshy
Peroxidase: Negative (adequately blanched)
Defect tolerances (by weight): Broken or split pods ≤ 5%; blemished ≤ 5%; untrimmed ≤ 3%; off-size ≤ 10%; clusters ≤ 2%; foreign matter: none. Mangetout: over-mature (swollen peas) ≤ 5%. Sugar snap peas: strings remaining (destringed lots) ≤ 5%
Microbiology: As for green beans
Packaging: 10 kg net carton with PE liner; 4 × 2.5 kg; retail and private label on request
Storage and shelf life: ≤ −18 °C; 24 months from production
HS code: 0710 21 (EU CN 0710 21 00)
Certifications
BRCGS Food Safety
HACCP+
EU Compliance / CE food contact
FDA RegistrationExhibitor
