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Item: Rice and Chicken, Mexican Style, Cooked, Dehydrated, Packaged in a Brickpack Pouch, 

Shelf Stable 

Document: PCR-R-011, Rice and Chicken, Mexican Style, Cooked, Dehydrated, Packaged in a 

Brickpack Pouch, Shelf Stable 

Approximate Caloric Value Per Serving: 630 cal per 

153 grams Component Classification: Primary 

Estimated Shelf Life: 36 months at 80°F 

Item Characteristics

Appearance: 

Dehydrated: A mixture of cooked kidney beans, brown rice, medium to light tan 

chicken pieces, dark brown to black olive pieces, and sweet green and red pepper 

pieces in a tomato-based sauce that has been dehydrated. Free from glazed surface 

areas or dark colored cores. 

Kidney beans: Light or dark red class; practically free of broken beans, mashed beans 

or loose skins. 

Brown rice: Instant, enriched, parboiled, whole grain, light brown to tan color. 

Sauce: Tomato-based, reddish-orange color, may contain flecks of herbs and spices. 

Rehydrated: A mixture of kidney beans, brown rice, chicken pieces, black olive 

pieces, and sweet green and red pepper pieces in a Mexican style tomato-based sauce 

typical of a product that has been frozen and reheated. 

Kidney beans: Practically free of broken beans, mashed beans or loose skins. 

Brown rice: Distinct rice grains, a light brown to tan color. 

Chicken: Minimum 60 percent white meat, distinct pieces, a medium to light tan color. 

Black olives: Dark brown to black pieces. 

Sweet green and red peppers: Dull green and bright red pieces. 

Sauce: Reddish-orange color may contain flecks of herbs and spices. 

Odor: 

Dehydrated: Cooked, dehydrated kidney beans, brown rice, chicken, black olives, 

and sweet green and red peppers in a Mexican style tomato-based sauce.

Rehydrated: Cooked beans, brown rice, chicken, black olives, and sweet green and 

red peppers in a Mexican style tomato based sauce. 

Flavor: 

Dehydrated: N/A 

Rehydrated: Cooked beans, brown rice, chicken, black olives, and sweet green and 

red peppers in a spicy, Mexican style tomato based sauce. Seasonings include at least 

turmeric, cumin, paprika, and peppers. 

Texture: 

Dehydrated: Fully dehydrated, no wet or soft spots. 

Rehydrated: Product fully rehydrates within ten minutes.

Kidney beans: tender and slightly firm, may be slightly dry inside. 

Brown rice: moist, slightly soft to slightly firm. 

Chicken: moist and tender. 

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Possible Deteriorative Changes 

Appearance: 

Dehydrated and rehydrated: Orange-grey color to sauce, darkening, loss of color in 

tomato based sauce, rice pieces not distinct or mushy appearance, dark chicken pieces, 

thick and pasty. 

Odor: Dehydrated and rehydrated: Low odor, loss of distinctive Mexican spice, musty, 

cardboard, and fishy. 

Flavor: Dehydrated and rehydrated: Low spice identity, cardboard flavor, bitter or sour 

notes, oxidized or rancid, grassy or barnyard tomato, scorched or burnt. 

Texture: 

Dehydrated: Hard, tacky or crystalline meat and tomato. 

Rehydrated: Unrehydrated product, dry or tough chicken pieces, rehydration 

poor/excess water, mushy rice. 

Unique Examination/Test Procedures

N/A 

Special Notes: Some ingredients such as rice may not be freeze dehydrated and will not easily crush 

into a powder. Beans may not rehydrate completely but shall not have a hard core. Typically the 

interior of dehydrated (freeze dried) kidney beans will be soft and easily crushed with finger pressure.