A grapefruit knife (10) for use in cutting sections of edible fruit from the less desirable membrane and peel is disclosed. The present invention includes a handle (12) having two opposing ends, a single cutting blade (14) attached to one end of the handle, and a scooping blade (16) attached to the other end of the handle. Each of these blades has two cutting edges. On the cutting blade the two cutting edges are aligned serially, in a plane, to cut in the same direction, while on the scooping blade the cutting edges are opposingly arranged.