Patent ID: 6861083

Claim:
A process for the processing of fruits of the type comprising whole oil-producing drupes with skins, pulp and stones containing kernels, said process comprising the steps of: a) preheating the whole drupes under controlled conditions for carrying out a controlled preheating limited to the water contained in the pulp, and under conditions which substantially avoid the oxidation of the pulp's natural antioxidants; b) effecting a rapid or virtually instantaneous evaporation of a fraction of the preheated water contained in the pulp, favoring cellular destructuring limited to the pulp with incipient detachment of the pulp from the skins and stones, under conditions which substantially avoid the oxidation of the pulp's natural antioxidants; c) separating and recovering the pulp resulting from the cellular destructuring due to the partial evaporation of the water, essentially devoid of stones and skins, and of the stones with skins, essentially devoid of pulp, respectively; d) separating pulp oil and the destructured pulp in the form of partially de-oiled purée, respectively; and e) recovering the pulp oil essentially devoid of oil derived from the stones and skins and containing the pulp's natuaral antioxidants, thereby improving the oxidation resistance of said oil.