The present invention involves methods for preparing a processed peanut product containing high levels of peanut hearts material, with the peanut heart material being substantially stripped of bitter taste so as to provide debittered peanut hearts of comparable taste to actual peanuts or as being flavorless without adversely affecting the taste of a foodstuff end product. All sequences in the set of spreading-code sequences available to the particular node of the network can be generated by the same configuration of two linear-feedback binary shift registers, where feedback taps of the two linear-feedback binary shift registers correspond to primative polynomials of the same degree over GF, the field of two elements. An apparatus for stabilizing dendritic web growth is also described. The programmable controller includes a mode control system adapted to receive a data signal to control the selective access to the at least one dormant operating mode.