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thumb|Trail mix is a snack food commonly made with [[peanuts, raisins, and candy, such as M&M's.]]
A snack is a small amount of food eaten between meals, like trail mix made with peanuts, raisins, and candy. Snacks matter because they provide convenient nourishment and energy when people need a quick bite outside of their regular mealtimes.
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Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 200,669 products
- Energy
- 433 kcal
- Fat
- 19.8 g
- — of which saturates
- 7.1 g
- Carbohydrates
- 57.9 g
- — of which sugars
- 29.9 g
- Fibre
- 4.2 g
- Protein
- 7.9 g
- Salt
- 5.37 g
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Research
12,685 papers- Snack Food, Satiety, and Weight.ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Njike VY, Smith TM, Shuval O et al.DOI: 10.3945/an.115.009340
- Snack food and beverage consumption and young child nutrition in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Pries AM, Filteau S, Ferguson ELDOI: 10.1111/mcn.12729
- Snack Consumption Patterns among Canadians.Nutrients · 2019Vatanparast H, Islam N, Patil RP et al.DOI: 10.3390/nu11051152
- Snacking in nutrition and health.ReviewInternational journal of food sciences and nutrition · 2019Marangoni F, Martini D, Scaglioni S et al.DOI: 10.1080/09637486.2019.1595543
- Modulation of snack foods: An approach to overcome hidden hunger in children.ReviewNutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2025Manzoor S, Altemimi AB, Rakha A et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2025.112777
- Fortified Snack Preferences among Patients with Cancer.Nutrition and cancer · 2022Enriquez-Fernandez BE, Chen L, Klassen P et al.DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2021.1957948
- Exercise Snacks and Other Forms of Intermittent Physical Activity for Improving Health in Adults and Older Adults: A Scoping Review of Epidemiological, Experimental and Qualitative Studies.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Jones MD, Clifford BK, Stamatakis E et al.DOI: 10.1007/s40279-023-01983-1
- The effect of discretionary snack consumption on overall energy intake, weight status, and diet quality: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2024Cooke CB, Greatwood HC, McCullough D et al.DOI: 10.1111/obr.13693
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thumb|Trail mix is a snack food commonly made with [[peanuts, raisins, and candy, such as M&M's.]]
A snack is a small portion of food 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.