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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7550167 | Grapefruit-juice-based beverage preparation method for the elimination of drug absorption interaction A method is provided for producing a grapefruit-juice-based beverage that does not contain compounds in sufficient quantity to inhibit the intestinal CYP3A4 enzyme in vivo. The method includes the steps of clarifying grapefruit juice and treating the resulting clear... | 06/23/2009 |
| 6780451 | Citrus juice vesicle separation method and system A method for separating juice vesicles from a citrus fruit includes the step of forming a plurality of generally circumferential scores between a stem end and a stylar end of a citrus fruit. Preferably each score extends at least through a flavedo of a peel of the f... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6764703 | Pigment extraction system and method A method for extracting a color-enhancing pigment includes separating grapefruit into in-line pulp and juice and then separating the juice into clarified juice and retentate. The retentate or the in-line pulp is then homogenized to form a slurry, and the pigment is ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6718868 | Fresh commodity peeling system and method A peeling device supports a fresh commodity in a first position in a nonspecific orientation. The commodity is impelled using a thruster toward a scoring structure for scoring the peel to a predetermined depth into two sectors. Peel grippers hold the peel between th... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6371014 | Fresh commodity peeling system and method The system for peeling a fresh commodity includes barbs for piercing the peel in a plurality of spaced-apart locations. A vacuum infuser is used to infuse the pierced commodity with an aqueous solution to loosen the peel. A peeling device supports a fresh... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6324531 | System and method for identifying the geographic origin of a fresh commodity The detection method includes generating a plurality of neural network models. Each model has as a training set a data set from a plurality of samples of a commodity of known origins. Each sample has been analyzed for a plurality of elemental concentratio... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6063429 | Method of making a food product from citrus pulp A method for making a food product for human consumption includes the steps of reducing a particle size of pasteurized citrus pulp cells to a predetermined particle size distribution. The reduced-size cells are blended with a sweetener and a concentrate h... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5817360 | Citrus fruit peeling method A method of pretreating citrus fruit for facilitating peeling utilizes infusion with an aqueous solution for loosening the peel from the underlying segments. In a first embodiment an infusion of water having essentially neither enzyme nor any other additi... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5697291 | Method and apparatus for microwave enhanced pasteurization and enzyme inactivation of continuously flowing product A method and apparatus is provided for pasteurizing and inactivating a continuously flowing product without scorching the product. Microwave heating is used to gradually raise the temperature of the fluid up to the pasteurization or inactivation temperatu... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5514389 | System and method for pasteurizing citrus juice using microwave energy A system and method for pasteurizing citrus juice with the use of microwave energy provide a plurality of microwave chambers through which juice is continuously flowed, the sequential flowing permitting a gradual increase in juice temperature that is suff... | 05/07/1996 |
