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A snack is a portion of food often smaller than a regular meal, generally eaten between meals.[1] Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged and processed foods and items made from fresh ingredients at home.
Traditionally, snacks were prepared from ingredients commonly available in the home. Often leftovers, cold cuts sandwiches, nuts, fruit, and the like were used as snacks. The Dagwood sandwich was originally the humorous result of a cartoon character's desire for large snacks. Beverages, such as coffee, are not generally considered snacks though they may be consumed along with snack foods. A beverage may be considered a snack if it possesses a substantive food item (e.g., strawberries, bananas, kiwis) that has been blended to create a smoothie.
Plain snacks like plain cereals, pasta, and vegetables are also mildly popular, and the word snack has often been used to refer to a larger meal involving cooked or leftover items. Six-meal eating is a form of eating that incorporates healthy snacks in between small meals, to stave off hunger and promote weight loss.
With the spread of convenience stores, packaged snack foods became a significant business. Snack foods are typically designed to be portable, quick, and satisfying. Processed snack foods are designed to be less perishable, more durable, and more portable than prepared foods. They often contain substantial amounts of sweeteners, preservatives, and appealing ingredients such as chocolate, peanuts, and specially-designed flavors (such as flavored potato chips). A snack eaten shortly before going to bed or during the night may be called a midnight snack.
Snack foods are often subjectively classified as junk food because they typically have little or no nutritional value,[citation needed] and are not seen as contributing towards general health and nutrition.[citation needed] With growing concerns for diet, weight control and general health,[citation needed] government bodies like Health Canada[2] are recommending that people make a conscious effort to eat more healthy, natural snacks – such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and cereal grains – while avoiding high-calorie, low-nutrient junk food.[citation needed]
A 2010 study showed that children in the United States snacked on average six times per day, approximately twice as often as American children in the 1970s.[3]
Types of snack food
See also: List of snack foods
Almonds
Apple slices
Bagel with cream cheese
Bitterballen
Bread/toast with butter, honey, jam, or other spread
Candy bar
Carrot Chips
Cashews
Cheese puffs/Cheese curls
Cheese, a larger cold prepared snack
Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats
Corn chips and Tortilla chips
Cocktail sausages
Crackers
Cookies/Biscuits
Doughnuts
Dried fruits
Drinkable yogurt
Edamame, fresh or dried
Granola bars
Falafel
Flour tortilla with a filling
Frozen berries
Sliced fruit
Fruit cocktail
Fruit salad
Ice cream
Instant noodles
Jell-O
Jerky
Kaassoufflé
Milkshake
Pound cake, in slices
Lunchables
Mixed nuts
Muffins
Nachos
Papadum
Parsnip Bits
Peanuts
Pita bread, straight from the packet or toasted
Pizza
Popcorn
Pork pie
Pork rinds
Potato chips
Pretzels, hard or soft
Raisins
Ratatouille, served cold, a larger cold prepared snack
Rice cake
Rice crackers, distinguished from the above
Saltines
Sandwich, a larger cold prepared snack
Samosa
Seeds (sunflower or seed mix)
Shortbread
Soft pretzel
Smoked salmon
Smoothie
Teacake
Toast
Trail mix
Vegetables (e.g. carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes)
Whole fruit
Yogurt
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Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
Healthy Snack Recipes Recipes for Kids in Urdu for Desserts for Dinner for Chicken with Ground Beef In Hindi for Cakes for Cookies Photos
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