Abstract: A crystallizable sugar is plasticized and then blended with shortening and flour to form an extrudable blend containing 15% by weight moisture or less, which then is extruded. The extruded blend requires little or no additional heat treatment or drying to form a food product having cookie-like characteristics.

Abstract: A novel process and apparatus is disclosed for producing potato chip products having less than twenty-five weight percent oil based on the total weight of an unseasoned chip. The process requires parfrying potato slices, dealing and partially dehydrating the slices with superheated steam and then further dehydrating the slices.

Abstract: Fitment and closure for the mouth of a bottle comprising an open top cup with a tube extending axially upwardly through the bottom wall less than the depth of the cup and molded of a soft material such as polyethylene and comprising a circular base and a depending skirt with the interior of the skirt and the exterior of the bottle finish being provided with cooperating locking lugs, the cap sealing the fitment by means of an inner seal that engages the top portion of the tube and an outer seal that engages inside the cup rim with the inner seal engagement depressing the tube to flex the bottom wall of the cup to bias the locking lugs to provide push and turn child resistance and enabling the closure cap to be made of integral one-piece molded construction of a relatively rigid material, such as polypropylene.