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Definition: Snack Food |
Snack FoodNoun1. Food for light meals or for eating between meals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Snack Food |
| Specialty definitions using "snack food": salt substrate. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A snack food is seen in Western culture as a type of food that is not meant to be eaten as part of one of the main meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, supper). Rather, the food is intended as a snack: something to temporarily tide a person's hunger and provide a brief supply of energy for the body.
Snack foods are designed to be less perishable, more durable, and more appealing than natural 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).
Foods manufactured primarily as snack foods are often classified as junk food: they have little or no nutritional value, and are not seen as contributing towards general health and nutrition.
The snack food industry in market-driven societies such as the United States generates billions of dollars in revenue each year. The market for snack foods is enormous, and a number of large corporations are constantly struggling to capture larger shares of the snack food market. Consequently, heavy promotions are used to convince consumers to buy snack foods. Snack foods are advertised far more than regular nutritional foods (such as fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy products), and the flashiest TV commercials and advertising campaigns are often designed to sell snack foods.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snack food."
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Screenplays | Stupid British snack food! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Colorful and tasty nuna beans will pop after a few minutes of cooking. Someday they may appear on supermarket shelves as a nutritious snack food. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
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Business | In 1999, the overall German market for human foodstuffs including alcohol, snack food, tobacco, etc. reached U.S. dollars 206 billion. (references) | |
Economic History | Greece | Good quality tree nuts are mostly used as snack food. (references) |
Canada | It is estimated that the leading four enterprises supply over 80 percent of total Canadian snack food production. (references) | |
Greece | US high quality almonds are developing a market in Greece as a snack food, highly regarded for quality and uniformity. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snack food | 910 |
j j snack food | 28 |
healthy snack food | 24 |
snack food recipe | 12 |
snack food company | 10 |
snack food industry | 10 |
snack food distributor | 7 |
hostess snack food | 7 |
snack food manufacturer | 7 |
snack food wholesale | 6 |
lance snack food | 4 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-f-k-n-o-o-s" | |
-3 letters: codons, condos. | |
-4 letters: canso, codas, codon, condo, conks, coofs, cooks, coons, docks, donas, fados, fanos, fonds, foods, kaons, koans, nocks, nooks, snack, snood, snook, socko. | |
-5 letters: ados, ands, cads, cans, cask, coda, cods, conk, cons, coof, cook, coon, coos, daks, dank, dock, docs, dona, dons, fado, fads, fano, fans, fond, fons, food, kafs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 61 63 6B 46 6F 6F 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01000110 01101111 01101111 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n a c k   F o o d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0061 0063 006B 0046 006F 006F 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5380676977240818170 |
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