What are Quality Related Issues?

The most common quality-related issues are moisture content, color, size, and sprouting. Desired quality characteristics include skin color; plumpness of tuber pieces; sheen on skin; and absence of vegetative sprouts, blemishes, soil, and insect injury.

Measures of Ginger 

• It shall be dried rhizomes of Zingiber officinale Rose, in pieces, irregular in shape, pale brown in colour.

• Its fibrous content shall be characteristic of the variety with peel not entirely removed.

• It shall be lime bleached.

• It shall have characteristic taste and flavour and shall not have a musty odour or a rancid or bitter taste.

• It shall be free from added colouring matter. It shall be free from mould growth and living insects and practically free from dead insects, insect fragments and rodent contamination.

• It shall comply with restrictions in regard to Aflatoxins, Metallic Contaminants, Insecticide or Pesticide residue, poisonous metals, naturally occurring Contaminants, Microbial load and the like as specified by the Codex Aliment Arius Commission or as per buyers requirements for Export purposes and the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955 for domestic trade.

Source: India Ginger