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snack food A snack is a small portion of Human food, food generally Eating, eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including Food packaging, packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at ho ...

in the form of a crisp, flat or slightly bowl shaped, bite-sized unit. Some chips can be made into dishes and served as an

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, hors d'oeuvre, etc. Some types of chip are often served in the combination plate,

chips and dip Chips or crisps are often served with dipping sauces; together they are referred to as chips and dip. Chips used include potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, bean chips, vegetable chips, pita chips, plantain chips and others. Cracke ...

. Other chips are sweet or strongly flavored or fragile.

Tortilla chips A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortilla, which are cut into triangles and then fried or baked (alternatively they may be discs pressed out of corn masa then fried or baked). Corn tortillas are made of nixtamalized corn, vegetab ...

can be used for chips and salsa, nachoes,

bean dip Bean dip is a type of dipping sauce made using common bean, beans or refried beans as a primary ingredient. It is typically served with tortilla chips, and can also be served with other foods such as Cracker (food), crackers and crudités. Variou ...

guacamole Guacamole (; informally shortened to ''guac'' in the United States since the 1980s) is an avocado-based dip, spread, or salad first developed in Mexico. In addition to its use in modern Mexican cuisine, it has become part of international cuisin ...

, or a '' layered dip'' containing multiple of these.

Popular kinds of chip

Root chips

Potato chip Potato chips (North American English and Australian English; often just chip) or crisp (British English and Hiberno-English) are thin slices of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep frying, deep fried, baking, baked, ...

s, a thin slice of potato that has been deep fried or baked until crunchy *

Tapioca chip Tapioca chips are a snack food made from thin wafers of deep-fried cassava root. It is commonly found in South India, and Sri Lanka, as well as in Indonesia where it is known as ''kripik singkong'' (cassava chips), and in Malaysia known as 'kerep ...

s, a snack food made from thin wafers of deep fried cassava root

Grain and bean chips

Bean chip A bean is the seed of some plants in the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. The seeds are often preserved through drying (a ''pulse''), but fresh beans are also sold. Dried beans are tradition ...

s, chips prepared using beans as a primary ingredient *

Corn chip Corn chips are a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop. Corn chips are thick, rigid, very crunchy, have the strong aroma and flavor of roasted corn, and are often heavily seasoned wi ...

s, a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked *

Pita chip Pita ( or ; ) or pitta (British English), also known as Arabic bread (, ), as Lebanese bread and as kmaj (from the Persian ''kumaj''), is a family of yeast- leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Levant ...

s, chips made of dried pita *

Tortilla chip A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortilla, which are cut into triangles and then fried or baked (alternatively they may be discs pressed out of corn masa then fried or baked). Corn tortillas are made of Nixtamalization , nixtamali ...

s, a snack food made from corn tortillas *

Pretzel A pretzel ( ; from or , ) is a type of baking, baked pastry made from dough that is commonly shaped into a knot. The traditional pretzel shape is a distinctive symmetrical form, with the ends of a long strip of dough intertwined and then twi ...

thins, a chip made from flattened and baked pretzel dough

Fruit chips (sweet chips)

Banana chip A banana chip (sometimes called banana crisp) is a deep-fried or dried, generally crispy slice of banana. It is usually made from firmer, starchier banana varieties (" cooking bananas" or plantains) like the saba and Nendran cultivars. It ca ...

s, slices of banana that are fried or dried *

Plantain chip Fried plantain is a dish cooked wherever plantains grow, from West Africa to East Africa as well as Central America, the tropical region of northern South America and the Caribbean countries like Haiti to Cuba and in many parts of Southeast A ...

s, a snack made with sliced plantains

Vegetable chips

Carrot chip Carrot chips are carrots that have been fried or dehydrated. Bagged, sliced carrots may also be referred to as 'carrot chips'. The fried version of carrot chips is often referred to as carrot fries, especially when the chips are cut in the shape ...

s, a common term for carrots that have been fried or dehydrated * Kale chips, snack food made of baked kale

Popular kinds of chip

Root chips

Grain and bean chips

Fruit chips (sweet chips)

Vegetable chips

See also