Extruded expanded cereal shaped as an array of touching balls

摘要

An expanded cereal in particular a breakfast cereal that has the overall shape of an array of touching balls, for example up to 12 balls or more, is obtainable by cooking-extruding-expanding a thermoplastic mass that exits an extrusion outlet as a bundle of separate parallel strands to obtain a bundle of strands of expanded thermoplastic substance which stick together, and cutting the bundle of strands at the extrusion outlet into a slice that forms the array of touching balls which stick together.