Washed & Ready to Eat
Green Baby Leaf Lettuce
How to eat: Baby lettuce such as Batavia or cos are very suitable to be eaten as a simple salad as a side-dish with meat or fish, mixed to other vegetables. With salad dressed or with extra virgin olive, Baby leaf salads taste fresh and delicate. It's crispy taste attenuates the strong savor of the most elaborated dishes.
Essential ingredient very suitable to eat with meat, tomatoes, salami and mozzarella. Baby leaf salads are cultivated in our farm according to traditional growing systems which we have been using for over 120 years.
To guarantee our customer healthy and safe products we have full traceability of each leaf we grow from before we plant the seed until the cultivation and harvesting to the final packing and delivery to the store. Each package has a code that is linked to a database with all the details of each leaf.
Fresh cut in the morning, washed and placed in MAP (Modified Air Packaging) and shipped the same day. Most bagged salads are much fresher than the whole head products you will find in a supermarket. This green batavia/cos is grown in tunnels to give us better control over the environment. The product is safer, cleaner and softer than product grown outside.
PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
| COMPOSITION | GREEN BATAVIA |
INGREDIENTS ORIGIN |
ITALY |
TEMPERATURE OF PRESERVATION |
+ 4°C +/- 1 |
LEAF LENGTH |
From 3 to 12 cm |
MOISTURE |
If it’s diffused: product elimination |
PERMISSIBLE TOLERANCE ON THE WEIGHT |
9% (80 gr) , 4,5% (125 gr, 200 gr) |
COLOUR MODIFICATION |
maximum 3% of the product |
ANOMALY ON THE LEAVES |
maximum 2% of the product |
SHELF LIFE |
6 + 1 days |
INFORMATION FOR CONSUMERS
INDICATION OF PRESERVATION |
After the opening of the packaging, remove excess air, fold the bag and close it with a scotch tape or a rubber band and put it in the refrigerator. |
PREPARATION
|
Our process encloses the entire wash. |
CONSUMERS CATEGORY |
ALL |
ORIGIN |
ITALY |
MICROBIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Parameter |
Units of measurement |
Limits of acceptability |
Total Viable Count |
CFU/g |
≤5 .000.000 |
Total Coliforms |
CFU/g |
≤30.000 |
Escherichia coli |
CFU/g |
≤100 |
Salmonella |
CFU/25g |
Absent in 25 g |
Listeria mon. |
CFU/25g |
Absent in 25 g |
CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Parameter |
Units of measurement |
Limits of acceptability |
Extraneous matter |
% |
Absent |
Vegetable extraneous matter |
% |
≤2 |
Oxidized units |
% |
≤10 |
PACKAGING AND PALLETIZATION CHARACTERISTICS
FIRST PACKAGING |
Propylene bag with anti-fog properties |
PACKING |
NON MODIFIED ATHMOSPHERE |
WEIGHT |
Basket: 80 gr, 125 gr |
TEMPERATURE OF PRESERVATION |
+ 4°C +/- 1 |
SECOND PACKAGING |
Cardboard dimension: 40 x 60 cm
Bag:
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LOT CODING |
The lot is composed by the day of the year |
EAN CODE |
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