IQF Butternut Squash Diced 10mm
In Season
Processing
Bananas are delivered fresh to the factory, each load is quality assurance sampled for foreign material and physical defects. The Butternut squash are harvested, trimmed, delivered to the factory. Each load is sampled and assessed for foreign material and physical defects. The load is then cleaned, inspected, diced, blanched, frozen and filled into bulk palletainers. Frozen butternut squash is sampled and assessed against specification. The palletainers are then labelled and transferred to the cold store, where they are stored at -18ºC until required for packing.
Packing
During packing, the diced butternut squash is inspected before weighing and filling into blue poly lined cartons. The cartons are Best Before and Production date coded, checkweighed and metal detected, palletised and stretch wrapped before being returned to store at -18ºC to await despatch to the UK at -18ºC.