CODEX STAN 62-1981 Standard for Canned Strawberries
1. DESCRIPTION
1.1 Product Definition
Canned strawberries is the product (a) prepared from strawberries of varieties (cultivars) conforming to the characteristics of the Genus Fragaria which are whole, clean, reasonably sound, of proper maturity and from which extraneous matter including calices and stems have been removed; (b) packed with water or other suitable liquid packing medium; and (c) processed by heat in an appropriate manner, before or after being sealed in a container, so as to prevent spoilage.
1.2 Varietal Type
Canned strawberries may be of any suitable variety (cultivar) of cultivated strawberry.
2. ESSENTIAL COMPOSITION AND QUALITY FACTORS
2.1 Packing Media1
2.1.1 Canned strawberries may be packed in any one of the following:
2.1.1.1 Water - in which water is the sole packing medium;
2.1.1.2 Fruit Juice - in which strawberry juice, or any other compatible fruit juice is the sole packing medium;
2.1.1.3 Water and fruit juice(s) - in which water and strawberry juice, or water and any other single fruit juice or water and two or more fruit juices, are combined to form the packing medium;
2.1.1.4 Mixed fruit juices - in which two or more fruit juices, which may include strawberry, are combined to form the packing medium;
2.1.1.5 With sugar(s) - any of the foregoing packing media 2.1.1.1 through 2.1.1.4 may have one or more of the following sugars added: sucrose, invert sugar syrup, dextrose, dried glucose syrup, glucose syrup.
