APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REDUCING CARRY OVER IN FOOD PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

摘要

The present invention relates generally to a system and method of removing or at least minimizing carry over (102) along food contact surfaces of a food processing and dispensing system. Specifically, data including color information related a first food product may be received and stored on a CPU (118). When the presence of carry over on the food contact surface (104) is detected the CPU utilizes color information related to a second food product to determine whether to implement a purge cycle to remove the carry over along the food contact surface before the production of the second food products based on a calculated color variance between received color information related the first food product and received color information related to the second food product. If the calculated color variance is outside a predetermined range of values, the system (100) implements a purge cycle before producing the second food product on the food contact surface.