General Mills, Inc.

Scott F Gillespie

Suzanne Hardy

Mark Griffin

Jennifer M Maack

Leslie D Miller

Jonathan P Paul

Amanda Clare Hume Stewart

Robert J Germick

Food package

A food package container may have an integrated spout that can be used to dispense the contents of the container into a consumer's mouth. In some examples, the food package container includes an elongated, flexible-wall container body providing a tubular chamber holding a foodstuff. The container has a spout formed by a narrowing of the container body in a region extending upwardly away from the tubular chamber. For example, spout may be bound on one side by the container body and further bound on an opposite side and on a top edge by a seal joining opposed walls of the container body together. To open the spout, a weakened line may extend laterally across the container body adjacent the top edge of the spout and longitudinally across the container body adjacent the side of the spout bound by the seal.

Food packaging having an integrated spout

Food package with integrated spout

A food product, preferably a food ingredient in the form of dye, pigment or similar colorant in a random pattern in refrigerated yogurt, is produced by supplying the food ingredient through a supply tube () extending through an injection tube () and into a fill pipe () and a fill tube (). In the preferred form, an elongated tubular member is formed around the fill tube () from a strip () of flexible material, with top and bottom seals being formed by a forming station (). In the preferred form, the injection tube () extends at an angle to the fill pipe () such that the supply tube () formed of stainless steel is generally linearly straight. The fill pipe () includes seal flanges () allowing its removal from the food material supply tubing () and the fill tube () to allow conventional cleaning of the remaining components of the apparatus (). The streaking effect is increased by introducing the second food ingredient through first and second ducts () on diametric opposite sides of and axially spaced along supply tube () and extending at an acute angle upstream of the supply tube ().

Method for making a patterned food product

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Maple Grove, MN, United States of America

Scott F Gillespie