What Are the Factors that Determine The Quality of Lime?

The factors that determine the quality of lime are the quality characteristics as follows:

• Whole
  

• Fresh in appearance
  

• Produce affected by rotting or deterioration such as to make it unfit for consumption is excluded
  

• Practically free of bruising and/or extensive healed-over cuts
  

• Clean, practically free of any visible foreign matter
  

• Practically free of damage caused by pests
  

• Practically free of pests affecting the general appearance of the produce
  

• Free of any foreign smell and/or taste
  

• Free of damage caused by frost
  

• Free of abnormal external moisture, excluding condensation following removal from cold storage
  

• Free of damage caused by low and/or high temperatures
  

• Free of signs of internal shriveling
  

• No pesticides
  

• Maximum Residue Levels (MRL) < 1 mg/Kg