ABSTRACT
Even though it is not an exact de nition, the term convenience foods refers to foods that have been either processed or created de novo to make them more appealing to the consumer (Briggs and Calloway, 1979). These types of foods include mixes, snack foods, desserts, preprepared or frozen items, including entrees, to name a few. The convenience foods selected to appear in this chapter are grouped together by the type of food items (e.g., snacks or pudding and custards) or similarities in the type of food products (e.g., French toast, pancakes, and waf' es or doughnuts and muf ns) and then listed alphabetically by their speci c groupings as follows: baby foods; cakes and frostings; candies and syrups; cookies; doughnuts and muf ns; French toast, pancakes, and waf' es; frozen desserts, gelatin, and dessert topping; pastries and pies; pizza and entrees; puddings and custards; and snacks (chips, crackers, popcorn, pretzels, and trail mix).
