Product: Desiccated Coconut - Unsweetened Low Fat Flour (fine-grade)
DESCRIPTION
Desiccated Coconut is the de-shelled, pared, washed, milled, blanched, dried, sifted, hygienically-packed meat of the fresh and mature fruit of the coconut.
A. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
1. Color and Appearance: white, free from yellow specs or other discolorations.
2. Flavor and Odor: mild & sweet natural coconut flavor, free from foreign or objectionable flavor/ odor.
3. Size: fine granules of coconut.
4. Granulation: 1. Mesh 7 (2,8 mm): 0-0%.
2. Mesh 14 (1,4 mm): maximum at 10%.
3. Mesh 18 (1,0 mm): maximum at 30%.
4. Pan: 65-80%.
B. CHEMICAL CONTENT
1. Moisture: maximum at 4,0%.
2. Fat: 50+/-5% on a dry-basis.
3. Free Fatty Acid (Lauric Acid): maximum at 0,10% on a dry-basis.
4. Residual: <10 ppm SO2.
5. pH: 6,1-6,7 at 10% dispersion filtrate.
6. Aflatoxins: none detected.
7. Organophosphorus Pesticide Residues: none detected.
C. MICROBIOLOGICAL
1. Plate Count: maximum at 5.000 cfu/g.
2. Yeast: maximum at 50 cfu/g.
3. Mold: maximum at 50 cfu/g.
4. Enterobacteriaceae 100 : maximum at 100 cfu/g.
5. Escherichia Coli (Type I): negative/10 g.
6. Salmonella: negative/50 g.
D. INGREDIENT LIST
Raw Coconut.
E. APPLICATION
1. Cosmetics.
2. Food.
3. Health.
4. Pharmaceutical.
F. PACKAGING SIZE
25 Kilograms in a Sack.
G. STORAGE CONDITION
1. Temperature: desiccated coconut shall be stored under a cool temperature (in-between 10 degrees-15,5 degrees Celsius).
2. Placement: at a cool, dry, and clean environment, free from foreign odor and out of direct heat/ sunlight. Important to note that desiccated coconut is not to be stored in a high moisturized area.
3. Life: 12 months from the date of manufacture, under the recommended storage temperature condition.
