Apparatus for the processing of food products (10), comprises: a conveyor (12) for feeding food products； several working tools (18), which are located right across the conveyor and are designed to penetrate into the food products, and a control device (20) for the working tools, where on the conveyor, a scanning device (24) is arranged upstream of the working tools and is set to scan the profile of the food products, and the control device is adapted to control the working tools depending on the sampled profile.
