Method and apparatus for producing a fruit product
AssigneeDecas Cranberry Products, Inc.
InventorsReza Ghaedian, Andre LaPerriere
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Abstract
A product and method for producing a fruit product from a fruit, the fruit including soluble fruit components. The method for producing a fruit product, the fruit product including soluble fruit components, extracts a desired amount of the soluble fruit components from the fruit and infuses the extracted fruit with an infusion liquid having an amount of sugar and an amount of soluble fruit components, the amount of soluble fruit components formulated to diffuse a predetermined amount of the soluble fruit components remaining in the extracted fruit into the infusion liquid.
Claims32
A method for producing a well-defined fruit product, the fruit product including soluble fruit components, the method comprising:
- extracting a desired amount of the soluble fruit components from a raw fruit, such amount being from substantially 35% to substantially 80% by weight;
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- infusing the extracted fruit with an infusion liquid having an amount of sugar and an amount of soluble fruit components under gentle conditions, the gentle conditions including formulating the amount of soluble fruit components in the infusion liquid in order to diffuse a predetermined amount of the soluble fruit components remaining in the extracted fruit into the infusion liquid and to substantially maintain the integrity of the infusion liquid, the well-defined fruit product produced mimicking the appearance and taste of the raw fruit.
A well-defined cranberry fruit product produced from a cranberry, the cranberry including soluble fruit components, the cranberry fruit product comprising:
- a cranberry piece produced in a process that substantially maintains the integrity of an infusion liquid comprising an amount of sugar and an amount of soluble fruit components, from which a desired amount of soluble fruit components has been extracted, such amount being from substantially 35% to substantially 80% by weight;
- and, at substantially the sane time, into which the infusion liquid has been infused and a predetermined amount of the soluble fruit components remaining in the extracted fruit has been diffused into the infusion liquid, the well-defined cranberry fruit product produced mimicking the appearance and taste of the cranberry.
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