Products FAQ’s

Pickles definitely are not food products that contribute significantly to nutritional demand of individuals. They are condiments to be consumed judiciously in small quantities alongside meals to make boring meals interesting, spicy, or tasty!

Glass is recognized as safest primary packing medium for long term food preservation and storage wrt keeping quality because of its inert properties. Glass enhances shelf life and appeal. We as a policy prefer glass over other packaging containers like flexible plastic pouches or rigid plastic containers (PET jars).

Let’s be truthful. Commercial pickles can never be called home made in the true sense. But PASAND pickles are true and closest to homemade pickles in terms of quality, formulation and process.

Other prevalent contemporary commercial pickle brands employ a commercial pickling method where the pickled fruits and vegetables are stored with spices in giant vats for months together and even years. Against that PASAND pickles are fresh because they are made in small batches freshly prepared every week as per demand from preserved seasonally procured and stocked fruits and vegetables using fresh spices and ingredients.

Let’s be truthful. Commercial pickles can never be called home made in the true sense. But PASAND pickles are true and closest to homemade pickles in terms of quality, formulation and process.

Other prevalent contemporary commercial pickle brands employ a commercial pickling method where the pickled fruits and vegetables are stored with spices in giant vats for months together and even years. Against that PASAND pickles are fresh because they are made in small batches freshly prepared every week as per demand from preserved seasonally procured and stocked fruits and vegetables using fresh spices and ingredients.

Pickles brands that claim healthy products citing “less oil” are clearly cheating you. Edible oil is the most expensive ingredient in pickle and reducing oil component in the pickle product reduces its price significantly. Premium quality pickles like PASAND always have ample oil topping that stays afloat the product just like home-made pickles. Populist brands simply replace fresh good quality edible oil with watery vinegar and excess salt that is super cheap to make. Some brands even use cheap edible oil like cotton seed oil which is unhealthy due to its high content of saturated and trans fatty acids.

Brands compromise in any of the above criteria to bring the price to gain market share. If you have any general or specific question related to any PASAND product please feel free to contact us.

One of the most common ways of cutting down cost is to buy low grade or variety of fresh produce. PASAND has the highest quality of fresh produce, may it be located in any part of India. Eg. Ginger is procured from the Karnataka ginger belts of Hassan and Shimoga. Such a variety is of the highest grade, has the best pungency and gives maximum yield and therefore most expensive.

The Quality control lab at PASAND constantly, tirelessly and unfailingly checks each and every lot of fresh produce entering in and ensures it is as per the quality specified. This is applicable for all packing material, fresh f&v, ingredients, edible oil, spices, etc. the specifications or quality parameters are bench-marked to make it incomparable to any other grade or variety.

Nothing much, just that we are a core pickling company professionally run by hard core food connoisseurs who believe that we must not make or sell or promote products with regards to quality that we would not consume ourselves at home. We have policy of upholding quality values in processing and products to ensure substandard products do not reach the end consumer. We do not compromise in quality in any way whatsoever in our ingredients, products and processes.

The products are having traditional recipes and formulations giving a homemade appeal with scientific hot filling that preserves its flavor and nutrition in spite of the thermal processing. Each individual product has its own specialty owing to its composition and process. Please follow PASAND on social media to know more about specific products. Eg. Mango pickle – the rajapuri variety that we use determine its naturally astringency, the ‘gutli’ we remove allow its palatability and the preservation technique we employ allows it to retain its firmness and quality.

The facility is USFDA inspected and approved by Indian government Export Inspection authority that inspects and clears individual consignment meant for supply to global importing countries. Regulatory agencies and external auditors have been monitoring implementation of GMP and HACCP in process and premises since 3 decades.

They are fresh and of the highest grade. We try to ensure they are free from objectionable foreign matter by strict protocols of hygiene and cleanliness during handling of food ingredients. Selection of Certain characteristic ingredient like jaggery, asafoetida (hing), turmeric resonate with the high quality product that we aspire to make.

Our products are made in small batches and therefore each batch is thoroughly prepared, inspected and approved before it reaches the packing. Multiple inspection checks ensure a zero defect product. Certain products have typical labour intensive kitchen processes that take 4 days to prepare a batch to achieve a ritual perfection without resorting to any short cuts. All products are thermally processed and hot-filled in glass jars which is something unique and also described in scientific literature across major food science publications as indispensable.

PASAND has set benchmark in quality and process when it comes to pickles. Although we continually learn and improve to improve quality and customer experience, it would be difficult for a brand to match its quality with pasand.

The recipe and formulation are backbone of desi product like pickles. It is essential to maintain a traditional approach to processing to make it taste like home-made. Products are free from economic adulterants. Poor quality spices get rejected by our quality assurance system.

Although glass is best packing medium to store and pack pickled products. It has disadvantages wrt handling. Glass being brittle can create food safety issues if not managed properly during manufacturing operations. Broken glass is a hazard for a food consumer. Therefore many brands avoid glass as their choice of container. The glass handling procedures at every level of operations in line with international food safety standards ensure safety wrt glass hazard contamination.

We export our products to premium brands based in USA, Australia-New Zealand, Canada, UK, Japan, Europe, gulf countries and even China. Our aim is to cater to the global consumer with premium products without compromising on quality of the process and product. We strive to provide value and service to our final customer through product quality and by exceeding customer expectation. For the people of Indian Diaspora residing in the various parts of the world, the products are an essential in their everyday lives. Our products are high in demand owing to the rich flavour, savoury taste and a feel of home-made recipes. Our ethnic products become an inseparable part of the staple diet and keep the connoisseurs, the epicureans as well as the gourmands close to their native home and motherland India in spirit.

The USFDA manages to supervise industries a plethora of verification and monitoring activities, record requirements, process parameters, hygiene protocols. Compliance to hygiene requirements, personal cleanliness, product specifications, labelling laws, microbiological testing and customer grievance redressal. We at PASAND maintain more than 55 kinds of records to establish, manage, maintain and continually improve the QMS (quality management system) across various departments.