Fresh-grapefruit trade begins with Citrus paradisi variety or commercial type, flesh colour, maturity, class and size—not a generic citrus label. Codex CXS 219-1999 covers commercial fresh grapefruit supplied to consumers and excludes fruit for industrial processing. A comparable lot identifies variety or commercial type, white, pink or red flesh where applicable, production origin and harvest period, Extra, Class I or Class II, minimum juice content and test basis, equatorial diameter or size code, count and package arrangement, colour and degreening status, shape and skin condition, rust-mite, melanose and other blemish findings, pest, decay, bruising, temperature and frost damage, residue and hygiene evidence, packer, lot, package and net weight, cold-chain and treatment record, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and information vintage.
The figures below are current requirements from the FAO/WHO Codex Standard for Grapefruits CXS 219-1999, adopted in 1999 and amended in 2005 and 2011. They define fresh Citrus paradisi identity, maturity, classes, sizing, tolerances, presentation and marking. They do not establish current availability, certify a shipment, represent juice or concentrate specifications, or provide a live delivered grapefruit price.
CXS 219-1999 applies to commercial Citrus paradisi fruit prepared and packed for supply fresh to consumers; it explicitly excludes grapefruit for industrial processing. Juice, juice from concentrate, concentrate, nectar and canned segments therefore need their own product records and standards. Atlas retains the fresh or processed form before comparing evidence or price.
Fresh grapefruit must be whole, sound, clean, firm, practically free of pests, pest damage and bruising, and free from abnormal moisture, foreign smell or taste and low-, high-temperature or frost damage. It must reach development and ripeness appropriate to its variety and growing area and contain at least 35 percent juice by total fruit weight. Greenish fruit may qualify when it meets the minimum requirements, and ripe fruit may be degreened only without changing other organoleptic characteristics.
Codex defines Extra, Class I and Class II. Class I allows slight shape, colour and healed skin defects and specified blemishing up to one-fifth of the fruit surface, without pulp damage; Class II allows broader defects and blemishing up to two-fifths, still without pulp damage. Size is the maximum equatorial diameter across codes 0 through 9, and fruit below 70 millimetres is excluded. Packs must retain the standard's uniformity, quality and size-tolerance rules.
The Codex requirements make grapefruit lots comparable; they do not supply current availability or price. A delivered physical estimate still needs a defined variety, flesh colour, class, size, maturity and juice-content evidence, origin and harvest, pack and count, treatment and cold chain, current permitted physical observations, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window, freight and information vintage. Atlas withholds a physical estimate when those observations or usage rights are absent.
No. Its primary standard covers fresh Citrus paradisi fruit for consumers and excludes fruit for industrial processing. Juice, concentrate, nectar and canned products require separate identities and specifications.
Fresh grapefruit must contain at least 35 percent juice calculated against the total weight of the fruit. The lot still needs variety, maturity, class, size and condition evidence.
Size is measured at the maximum equatorial diameter, and fruit below 70 millimetres is excluded. The standard defines size codes and pack-uniformity rules above that floor.
Citrus paradisi variety or commercial type, flesh colour, maturity and juice-content result, Extra, Class I or Class II, equatorial diameter or size code, count, blemish and defect findings, origin and harvest, treatment and cold chain, pack, lot, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and evidence date.
Figures retain their source, period and review date. Corroboration is not promoted to primary evidence.