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Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990)

Regulations

Grading, Packing and Marking of Canned and Pickled Vegetables intended for sale in the Republic of South Africa

Part VII :  Specific Quality Standards for Canned Vegetables

25. Beans, Dried

1. Definitions

 

(1) Where used specifically with regard to canned dried beans—

 

(a) "broken beans" means a cotyledon or portions of a cotyledon which have become separated, or a bean or portions of a bean with the skin or portions of the skin missing;

 

(b) "defects" means the defects defined in regulation 1, as well as dried beans of which—;
(i) the skins have completely split down the middle of the bean; and
(ii) the skins have split rectangular to the longitudinal axis;

 

(c) "dried beans" means dry, mature beans suitable for canning (e.g. white beans, lima beans, garbanzo beans or chickpeas, black-eyed peas, kidney beans etc.), but excludes soybeans;

 

(d) "fairly tender texture" means beans that are slightly soft or slightly firm with tender skin;

 

(e) "loose skin" means a skin or portions of a skin which have become separated wholly from the cotyledons;

 

(f) "mashed beans" means a bean that is crushed or flattened to the extent that the appearance is seriously affected;

 

(g) "split beans" means canned dried beans which have split completely in two.

 

(h) "tender texture" means broken that are free from hard beans, mushy beans and beans with tough skins; and

 

(i) "reasonably tender texture" means beans that are soft but not hard or mushy and the skin may be slightly tough.