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Disclosed are two-compartment food packages which includes a first lower compartment housing a first food material, e.g., ice cream, and a second upper compartment housing a second food material, e.g., chocolate sauce with the second material being supported on an edible barrier which also serves to

Disclosed are two-compartment food packages which includes a first lower compartment housing a first food material, e.g., ice cream, and a second upper compartment housing a second food material, e.g., chocolate sauce with the second material being supported on an edible barrier which also serves to define the upper and lower compartments. Preferred embodiments are expecially adapted to packaged food items intended to be heated with microwave energy and further include a microwave shield surrounding the exterior wall surface of the lower compartment.

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A packaged food article for food having two dissimilar phases which exhibits greater storage stability due to reduced migration between the phases, comprising: A. a container having, vertically arranged, a first lower compartment and a second upper compartment; B. an interjacent edible barrier, said

A packaged food article for food having two dissimilar phases which exhibits greater storage stability due to reduced migration between the phases, comprising: A. a container having, vertically arranged, a first lower compartment and a second upper compartment; B. an interjacent edible barrier, said barrier spaced within the container defining the bottom of the upper compartment and the top of the lower compartment and having opposed upper and lower major surfaces and wherein the edible barrier is laminated and includes: 1. an edible, smooth surfaced, planar substrate having an opposed pair of major surfaces thereby defining an upper major surface and a lower major surface; 2. a first layer overlaying or underlying said substrate in the form of an edible, continuous, flexible, non-water swelling, low-water vapor permeable film and comprises a member selected from the group consisting of (a) a composition comprising the heat cured reaction polymer product of (1) unbleached, dewaxed, filtered, carbon black decolorized, virgin, edible shellac, and (2) a first reactant member selected from the group consisting of hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose, and mixtures thereof, wherein the ratio of the reactant member and shellac ranges from 0.001 to 2:1, and wherein the product has an average molecular weight of at least 2,000, and (b) a composition comprising the heat cured reaction polymer product of unbleached, dewaxed, filtered, carbon black decolorized, virgin, edible shellac and wherein the product has an average molecular weight ranging from about 1,500 to 6,000, and (c) mixtures of composition (a) and composition (b); C. means for securably positioning the barrier within the container including an internal shoulder intermediate the upper and lower compartments; D. a first food phase having a first water activity in the lower compartment having a top surface; E. a second food phase having a second water activity differing from the first water activity in the upper compartment; and F. an insulative air space intermediate the lower major surface of the barrier and the top surface on the first food phase and wherein the first layer is intermediate the substrate and the food phase having the higher water activity.