Abstract: Apparatus for pulping, slicing and/or destoning fruit and the like comprising introducing the fruit into a rotating container provided with a plurality of radially extending tubular arms such that the fruit will be thrown outwardly along the arms to strike pulping blades extending across the arm, the pulped flesh of the fruit being thrown outwardly from the tubular arm while the stones are projected tangentally forwards by the blades which are disposed at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the arm within which they are mounted.