Julienning/Dicing Food Pusher Having Easy-Clean Configuration

A food product pusher for a food product cutting apparatus having a pusher holder and a blade set having a Julienning/dicing blade grid defining a plurality of food openings through which the food product pusher pushes food during a cutting operation of the food product cutting apparatus, the food product pusher comprising:

• a plurality of pusher fingers defined by first set of channels having first longitudinal axes extending in a first direction and a second set of channels having a second longitudinal axes extending in a second direction different from said first direction so that said first set of channels cross said second set of channels so as to define said pusher fingers and to form a plurality of intersections, said first and second sets of channels being located so that, when the food product pusher is engaged with the pusher hold, the pusher hold can push the food product pusher so that said pusher fingers extend, correspondingly and respectively, into the food openings of the Julienning/dicing blade grid;
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• a backing supporting said pusher fingers in fixed relation to one another and having a back side opposite said pusher fingers, said backing including a plurality of wash openings extending from said back side to said first and second sets of channels, wherein each of said wash openings fluidly communicates with at least one of said intersections.