Process of and apparatus for extraction of part you 'd want to eat fruit

摘要

A method of and apparatus for extracting the meat section and juice from a fruit while minimizing the amount of undesirable flavor components, e.g. peel oil, released from the fruit's peel. In one embodiment of the present invention, whole fruits are fed into a single station extraction apparatus (10) that first cuts a equatorial groove in the fruit's peel while the fruit is rotated. A semicircular coring blade (170) is then inserted into the groove and rotated 360 DEG which severs a spherical chunk of fruit meat from the peel. The small amount of fruit meat remaining on the peel's inner surface is then preferably extracted with a reaming element (200) or fluid jet nozzle. In other particularly preferred embodiments, the grooving, coring, and reaming component mechanisms are incorporated into an indexing turret apparatus and a high-speed continuous motion turret apparatus.