This document provides specifications for Baby Red Batavia lettuce, including target lengths and widths for leaves and stems, descriptions of product attributes like color and flavor, and unacceptable quality defects that could result in rejection, such as damage from pests, frost, or poor harvesting techniques. Critical quality parameters include a maximum of 2 flower stalks or flowers per outer leaf and an intact whole plant with robust leaves that can withstand processing without bruising or physical damage.

1. Baby Red Batavia
Key Parameters
Min Target Max n Unit Notes
Lenghts
Leaf Lenght All Sites 6,0 10,0 13,0 cm
Stem Lenght All Sites 0,1 5,0 cm
Widths
Leaf Diameter All Sites 8,0 cm
Product Attributes
Attribute Description Comment
Blanch
Blister Bubbled
Colour Deep red outer fading to mid green at base
Density
Flavour Mild flavour with no bitter taint
Leaf Flexability Succulent and soft eiting
Leaf Shape Frilly round
Leaf Size Whole Red Batavia leaves
Leaf Texture Leaves to be fresh, moist and sufficiently robust
Strucuture N/A
Safety/Quality Parameters
The presence of any unacceptable defect listed below may result in rejection.
The combination of quality defects must not cause raw materials to fall below specified usable yield.
Critical quality parameters Unacceptable quality defects
Flower Stalks/Flowers (max of 2 per outer) Leaf not robust enough withstand wash process
Cotyledons Disease (e.g. breakdown, mould, mildew, black spotting)
Whole plant (not individual leaves)
Yellowing (or poor colour)
Tip Burn
Harvest/packing/handling damage
Bruised leaves
Physical damage and ragged leaves
Pest damage
Frost damage/delamination
Bitty pieces of leaves
Leaf size out of specification