Contour peeled and precored pineapple halves are continuously advanced, cut face down, along a planar support having a rib which guides the halves by their precore recesses. The halves are then passed over a rotary loop knife projecting up through the support which removes the remainder of the core material and the recored halves are then guided by a larger rib fitted into the recore recesses. The guided halves then pass beneath radial segmenting knives which are backed up by downstream radial guide plates and the segmented halves are projected past the end of the support into the path of a rotary chunking knife. The rotary chunking knife has an offset gauge plate for receiving the fruit ends and a spiral edged slicing knife parallel to the gauge plate adjacent the end of the support, with the gauge plate terminating circumferentially while the knife is still slicing and with the knife terminating circumferentially at the off-set pineapple receiving portion of the gauge plate.