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thumb|Trail mix is a snack food commonly made with [[peanuts, raisins, and candy, such as M&M's.]]
OverviewAI-generated
A snack is a type of food item categorized under "Snack food" in various databases. It is referenced by 1,236 other encyclopedia articles. In the Openfoodfacts database, the snacks category contains 200,669 products.
Nutritional data for this category indicates an energy value of 433 kcal. The composition includes 19.8 of fat, with 7.1 of that being saturated fat. Carbohydrates total 57.9, of which 29.9 are sugars. The fiber content is 4.2, proteins are 7.9, and salt is 5.37. The category holds a nutriscore of e and a nova rating of 4. A PubMed search for the query "snack" yields a count of 12,685.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Openfoodfacts, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
via Open Food Facts · ODbL
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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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- North America
- Canada
- United States
- Middle East
- Asia
- Japan
- Nutrition
- Types
- See also
- References
- Sources
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “snack” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.