Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Products per se – or processes of preparing or treating... – Plant material is basic ingredient other than extract,...
Patent
1996-06-10
1998-06-02
Pratt, Helen
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Products per se, or processes of preparing or treating...
Plant material is basic ingredient other than extract,...
426333, 426425, 426479, 426482, 426615, A23L 1025
Patent
active
057596115
ABSTRACT:
A new method for processing citrus fruit into a marketable product of separate whole natural sections involves as an essential step the injecting of water under pressure simultaneously at a plurality of separated locations into the citrus fruit substantially restricted to the albedo level depth without bursting of the skin. Typically, a complete processing method includes the steps (a) providing a quantity of whole citrus fruit, (b) chilling the fruit to between about 35.degree.-45.degree. F., (c) blanching the chilled fruit at about 160.degree.-180.degree. F. for about 1-3 minutes, (d) injecting water under pressure at a plurality of separated locations into the blanched fruit substantially restricted to the albedo level depth, (e) peeling the skin from the water injected fruit, (f) immersing the peeled fruit in a caustic bath, (g) separating the immersed and peeled fruit into individual whole sections, and (h) recovering the separated whole sections as a marketable product. Systems for conducting such methods and injector devices for performing the fruit injection step are disclosed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4065582 (1977-12-01), Webb et al.
patent: 5560951 (1996-10-01), Pao et al.
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