A fruit hull remover removes hulls from berries and other fruit with hulls. The fruit hull remover has a handle, an at least one tong, and an at least one prong, all of which are typically curved or round. The handle has a threaded rod between or at the center of the at least one tong to engage and remove a fruit hull. The threaded rod may be recessed from the at least one prong and have a distal unthreaded region, both which reduce entry pressure into the hull and mitigate entry of the threaded region into the fruit meat to increase intact hull removal performance. A hull ejector has an inner ring and an outer ring to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull, or the hull ejector may have hemi-cylindrical halves to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull.

A fruit hull remover removes hulls from berries and other fruit with hulls. The fruit hull remover has a handle, an at least one tong, and an at least one prong, all of which are typically curved or round. The handle has a threaded rod between or at the center of the at least one tong to engage and remove a fruit hull. The threaded rod may be recessed from the at least one prong and have a distal unthreaded region, both which reduce entry pressure into the hull and mitigate entry of the threaded region into the fruit meat to increase intact hull removal performance. A hull ejector has an inner ring and an outer ring to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull, or the hull ejector may have hemi-cylindrical halves to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull.

Heart of palm may be harvested from palm trees as a source of food. The core of a heart of palm heart is more desirable than the base of the palm heart due to its more favorable characteristics, resulting in under-utilization and waste of the base. The base and core may be processed in ways that advantageously utilize the base and overcome differences in density and inherent taste properties between the two sections. In an example, the base is treated with a cleaning solution and pieces are formed from the base. In this example, the pieces are immersed in an acid solution and packaged in an oxygen-impermeable packaging medium. The resulting heart of palm base pieces have favorable taste and mouthfeel and the pieces derived from the base are indistinguishable from pieces derived from the core.

Heart of palm may be harvested from palm trees as a source of food. The core of a heart of palm heart is more desirable than the base of the palm heart due to its more favorable characteristics, resulting in under-utilization and waste of the base. The base and core may be processed in ways that advantageously utilize the base and overcome differences in density and inherent taste properties between the two sections. In an example, the base is treated with a cleaning solution and pieces are formed from the base. In this example, the pieces are immersed in an acid solution and packaged in an oxygen-impermeable packaging medium. The resulting heart of palm base pieces have favorable taste and mouthfeel and the pieces derived from the base are indistinguishable from pieces derived from the core.