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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the Keebler
Foods Company Consolidated Balance Sheet at April 22, 2000 and the Consolidated
Statement of Operations for the sixteen weeks ended April 22, 2000 found on
pages 2 through 4 of Keebler's Form 10-Q and is qualified in its entirety by
reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME>                        KEEBLER FOODS COMPANY
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