Product name

Double concentrated tomato paste

Containers

Tin cans, size 1/10, 1/5, , 4/4, 2.2 kg and tube

Container features

External appearance

Clean, without defects

Internal appearance

Clean, without defects

Cover/seal/seaming

Regular / normal

Coding & Information

Easy to read and exact

Label / lithography

No defects and exact

Vacuum cm Hg

Not less than 20; 10 for 1/10 and 2.2 kg

Tins only, 5% + /-

Cans net weight according CEE

70, 140, 400, 850, 2200 g.;140 g. for tubes

Product features

OR -Optical residue (Brix)

Minimum 28

+/- 5%

DR -Dry residue (after oven)

28-30

Sugar ratio as % of D.R.

Better than 40

Acidity ratio as % of D.R.

Lower than 10

Volatile acidity as % of D.R.

Lower than 0,4

Ph at 20C

4.2 - 4.45

Howard mould count

< 60 % of positive fields (R.O. 7.5 at 25C)

Italy spec. only

Howard mould count

< 40 % of positive fields (R.O. 8.5 at 25C)

UK and others

Howard mould count

< 20 % of positive fields (R.O. 8.5 at 25C)

USA and Canada

Mineral insoluble impurities

< 0.1 % of D.R.

Bostwick for cold break

8-10 cm (12,5Brix, for 30 seconds at 25C)

+/- 10%

Bostwick for hot break

4 - 7 cm (12,5Brix, for 30 seconds at 25C)

+/- 10%

Screen mesh into the finisher

0.8 mm (pieces of skin, seeds, black points shall the absent)

NaCl (total salts)

Max. 1 - 1.1 %

Smell

Typical of tomatoes

GARDNER color

a/b > 1.9 (at 6.2 Brix)

Taste

Typical

Microbiological features

Stable after incubation at 32C for 14 days

Guaranteed product life

2 years