Method for manufacturing a food product, a food product produced by a food product manufacturing system, and food product manufacturing system

A method for manufacturing a food product, comprising:

• transporting a first elongated sheet of a first foodstuff in a first driven direction along a first conveyor, the first elongated sheet having a first width extending from a first edge extending in a direction parallel to the first driven direction to a second edge formed on an opposite side of the first elongated sheet from the first edge;
• while transporting the first elongated sheet in the first direction:
• forming, using a foodstuff channel-forming member, a second-foodstuff-deposit-receiving channel in an upper surface of the first elongated sheet, wherein:
• the foodstuff channel-forming member is statically arranged at a height above the first conveyor that is less than a thickness of the first elongated sheet;
• while forming the second-foodstuff-deposit-receiving channel and with the foodstuff channel-forming member statically arranged at the height above the first conveyor, movement of the first elongated sheet relative to the foodstuff channel-forming member consists of movement in the first direction;
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• a channel edge of the second-foodstuff-deposit-receiving channel nearest to the first edge of the first elongated sheet is spaced from the first edge of the first elongated sheet;
• depositing a strip of a second foodstuff upon a portion of the upper surface of the first elongated sheet in a direction parallel to the first driven direction, wherein depositing the strip of the second foodstuff upon the portion of the upper surface includes depositing the second foodstuff into the second-foodstuff-deposit-receiving channel, the strip having a second width (i) extending from a third edge extending in a direction parallel to the first drive direction to a fourth edge formed on an opposite side of the strip from the third edge, and (ii) less than or equal to approximately one-third of the first width, wherein the third edge of the strip is spaced apart from the first edge of the first elongated sheet by a first distance equal to approximately one-fourth of the first width;
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• separating the first elongated sheet into a series of sheet segments each including the first foodstuff and the strip of the second foodstuff;
• serially transporting each of the sheet segments from the first conveyor moving in the first driven direction to a second conveyor moving in a second driven direction that is transverse to the first driven direction, whereby each subsequent sheet segment is stacked upon an immediately preceding sheet segment and the strip of the second foodstuff of the immediately preceding sheet segment encapsulated between the first foodstuff of the immediately preceding sheet segment and the first foodstuff of the subsequent sheet segment;
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• compressing the subsequent and immediately preceding sheet segments to form a second elongated sheet including a layer of the second foodstuff encapsulated between a first layer of the first foodstuff and a second layer of the first foodstuff;
• and
• separating the second elongated sheet into a plurality of food product body units.