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An apparatus (10) for forming a single extrudable food stream such as a cooked cereal dough into a plurality of differently colored and/or flavored dough streams is disclosed including an extruder having screw augers in a main passageway for advancing a plastic food mass, a device for dividing the p

An apparatus (10) for forming a single extrudable food stream such as a cooked cereal dough into a plurality of differently colored and/or flavored dough streams is disclosed including an extruder having screw augers in a main passageway for advancing a plastic food mass, a device for dividing the plastic food mass into a plurality of substreams such as a branching passageway section in fluid communication with a plurality of sub-divided dough passageways, and a die head having a plurality of die ports for each subpassageway. Each subpassageway has a separate conduit for supplying an additive and has disposed therein a multiplicity of in-line static mixer elements to admix the additive into the substreams of the plastic food mass before passage through the die ports.

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[ We claim:] [18.] A method for producing multiple extrudates from a single product mass stream comprising the steps of:A. providing a single extrudable food product mass stream;B. dividing the extrudable food product mass stream into at least a first and a second food product mass substream dispose

[ We claim:] [18.] A method for producing multiple extrudates from a single product mass stream comprising the steps of:A. providing a single extrudable food product mass stream;B. dividing the extrudable food product mass stream into at least a first and a second food product mass substream disposed within separate subpassageways;C. adding a first flowable additive exclusively to the first food mass substream without communication to the other substreams to form a first unmixed substream blend;D. admixing the first unmixed substream blend without imparting shear to form a first mixed substream blend;E. extruding the first mixed substream blend through a die port to form a first extrudate stream; andF. simultaneously extruding the second substream through a die port to form a second extrudate stream.