ABSTRACT
According to the Oxford dictionary, snacks or snack foods can be dened as a small meal or a small amount of food that are usually consumed in a hurry. Traditionally, snacks are prepared from commonly available home ingredients. After hundreds, or thousands, of years of development, modern snacks have become a huge business food category, and the ingredients for preparing snacks include almost all edible materials, such as fruit, vegetable, meat, egg, and grain. The form of snacks varies and includes dessert, jerky, ice-cream, preserved fruit, chips, dried fruit/vegetable, etc. Because convenience stores have become more and more popular nowadays, packaged snack foods are a signicant business. Snack foods often contain substantial amounts of sweeteners, preservatives, and appealing ingredients, such as chocolate, peanuts, and specially formulated avors (e.g., avored potato chips).
