Snacks

A snack is a portion of food, smaller than a regular meal, generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home.

Traditionally, snacks are prepared from ingredients commonly available in the home. Often cold cuts, fruit, leftovers, nuts, sandwiches, and the like are used as snacks. The Dagwood sandwich was originally the humorous result of a cartoon character's desire for large snacks. 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, as one form of convenience food, 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).

Beverages, such as coffee, are not generally considered snacks though they may be consumed along with or in lieu of snack foods.[2]

A snack eaten shortly before going to bed or during the night may be called a midnight snack.

Almonds

Apple slices

Antz

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 sausage

Crackers

Cookies/Biscuits

Deviled eggs

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

Pakoda

Pretzels, hard or Soft pretzels

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

Smoked salmon

Smoothie

Teacake

Toast

Trail mix

Vegetables (e.g. carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes)

Whole fruit

Yogurt