Pomegranate is not one interchangeable fresh-fruit grade. The current UNECE standard applies to commercial varieties of Punica granatum supplied fresh and separates variety, quality class, optional diameter, weight or count sizing, origin and package marking. Atlas keeps whole fresh fruit separate from arils, juice, purée, concentrate and industrial-processing fruit, and retains maturity, defects, treatment, package, lot, quantity and delivery terms before comparing offers.
UNECE FFV-64 defines Extra, Class I and Class II quality and optional sizing for fresh pomegranates. Its diameter codes run from A at 81 millimetres or more to E at 40–50 millimetres, while weight codes run from A at 501 grams or more to E at 200 grams or less. The standard allows a 5 percent Extra-Class quality tolerance, 10 percent for Class I and Class II, and 10 percent size tolerance when fruit is sized. Codex CXS 247 separately gives minimum Brix 12 for reconstituted Punica granatum juice or purée and 25 percent minimum juice or purée content for nectar. These are classification and processed-product references, not results for an offered lot or a current price.
Kew accepts Punica granatum L. in Lythraceae, while UNECE FFV-64 applies to commercial varieties of that species. Variety affects skin and aril colour, size, acidity, sweetness, seed hardness and market use, so Atlas retains accepted species evidence, named variety or cultivar, production origin and lot identity rather than treating every fruit sold as pomegranate as equivalent.
UNECE FFV-64 covers pomegranates supplied fresh after preparation and packaging and excludes fruit for industrial processing. Codex CXS 247 applies separately to fruit juice, purée and nectar. Whole fruit, fresh arils, single-strength juice, purée, concentrate and nectar therefore keep separate product identities, mass or volume bases, processing records, package forms, shelf-life evidence and inspection results.
UNECE requires fresh pomegranates to be intact, sound, clean, sufficiently developed and mature, practically free from pests and pest damage, and free of abnormal external moisture and foreign smell or taste. Extra, Class I and Class II each have distinct defect allowances and tolerances. Atlas retains representative sample, inspection date, class, maturity basis, each defect result, decay result, size method and actual distribution with the lot.
UNECE permits sizing by maximum equatorial diameter, individual-fruit weight or count. The diameter guide uses A through E from at least 81 millimetres down to 40–50 millimetres, while the weight guide uses A through E from at least 501 grams down to 200 grams or less. Count sizing must remain consistent with diameter or weight. Atlas records the named method, code, range, package count and measured distribution rather than translating an unlabeled size claim.
A UNECE class, size code or Codex Brix threshold does not establish an offered lot's identity, actual maturity, defects, availability, transaction value or delivered cost. A physical comparison still needs permitted current observations for the exact fresh or processed form, variety, class and measured size, quality and treatment results, origin, crop and packing dates, package, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window, cold-chain and route costs, and information vintage. Atlas withholds a physical estimate when those observations or usage rights are missing.
No. Variety identifies the commercial type; Extra, Class I or Class II requires inspection of the actual lot against the applicable UNECE quality and defect provisions.
No. When fruit is sized, the method may be maximum diameter, individual weight or count and the package marking must state the applicable basis. Atlas retains the method and measured distribution.
No. Diameter size A means at least 81 millimetres at the maximum equatorial section, while weight size A means at least 501 grams per fruit. The basis must always travel with the code.
No. It is the minimum for reconstituted Punica granatum juice or purée under CXS 247. Fresh-fruit maturity, class, size and defects require separate lot evidence.
Accepted species, variety or cultivar, whole fruit, arils or processed form, maturity, class and defect results, diameter, weight or count basis, treatment and residue evidence, origin, crop and packing dates, package and lot, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window, cold-chain and evidence date.
Figures retain their source, period and review date. Corroboration is not promoted to primary evidence.