The apparatus includes a cluster of knife blades which is moved up and down to slice the fruit; a free floating cylinder having axial slots and freely resting on the cluster, the cluster being disposed within the free floating member with its blades being positioned within the slots; an apertured cup holding a cored fruit positioned below the cluster, the core passage of the fruit being aligned with the aperture in the cup; and a celling knife disposed below the cup which is raised into the core passage in the fruit to remove the seed cell material thereupon. The sequence of operation is commenced by positioning the fruit in the cup below the cluster and above the celling knife. The free floating member is brought to rest on the fruit while the celling knife is raised into the core passage in the fruit, gradually expanded to remove the seed cell material therefrom in small particles, collapsed and retracted from the core passage. The cluster of knife blades is advanced against the fruit to slice same and retracted while the free floating member, being restrained by the flexible stop member, extracts wedged slices of the fruit from between the knife blades.