GB/T 5835-2026Dried red jujubes (English PDF)

3.1

Red dates are made from ripe fresh dates through processes such as screening, washing, drying, manual or machine sorting, and packaging.

3.2 General impurities

The jujube branches, leaves, trace amounts of mud, sand, dust, and other substances that are naturally introduced into the jujubes during the natural production process and have no edible value are mixed in.

3.3 harmful impurities

Various toxic, harmful, or food safety-impairing substances that are not permitted to be mixed into red dates.

Note. This includes glass shards, ceramic pieces, asphalt, cement blocks, coal dust, hair, insect carcasses, plastic filaments, and other harmful impurities.

3.4 Defective fruit

Fruits that have been damaged or become abnormal due to pests, diseases, mechanical or chemical effects during growth, harvesting and processing.

Note. This includes diseased fruit, insect-infested fruit, dried fruit, fruit with pulpy tops, broken fruit, oily fruit, moldy fruit, and other substandard fruit (deformed fruit, abnormal color, deformed fruit, etc.).

3.5 dried immature fruit

Made from unripe fresh dates, the fruit is dry, hard, small, with little flesh, a firm texture, and a pale yellowish, dull skin.

3.6 Starchhead Fruit

If the dates are affected by rain during their growth or drying process, and the ends or parts of the dates are not properly dried, they will have a high moisture content and a dull color.