Sterilizing method for treatment of fresh fruits and apparatus used for the method

摘要

A sterilizing method for treatment of fresh fruits and an apparatus used for the method that allow a significant reduction of steam consuption and of fruit sterilization cost is disclosed. The present invention is characterized by that extermination of vermin eggs and sterilization and disinfection of fresh fruits is conducted without deteriorating the freshness of the fruits to be treated by irradiating far infrared rays on the fruits to preheat the cores of the fruits to a predetermined temperature and then by maintaining the fruit cores at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined period of time in saturated steam.