This is a list of crackers. A

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typically made from a

grain A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit ( caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legum ...

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flour Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods. Cereal flour, particularly wheat flour, is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cul ...

dough Dough is a thick, malleable, sometimes elastic paste made from grains or from leguminous or chestnut crops. Dough is typically made by mixing flour with a small amount of water or other liquid and sometimes includes yeast or other leavenin ...

and usually manufactured in large quantities. Crackers (roughly equivalent to savory

biscuits A biscuit is a flour-based baked and shaped food product. In most countries biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be ...

in the United Kingdom and the

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) are usually flat, crisp, small in size (usually or less in diameter) and made in various shapes, commonly round or square.

Crackers

Animal cracker An animal cracker is a particular type of cracker, baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or a circus, such as a lion, a tiger, a bear, or an elephant. The most common variety is light-colored and slightly sweet, bu ...

Bath Oliver A Bath Oliver is a hard, dry biscuit or cracker made from flour, butter, yeast and milk; often eaten with cheese. It was invented by physician William Oliver of Bath, Somerset around 1750, giving the biscuit its name. History When Oliver died ...

* Cream cracker * Crispbread * Cheese cracker *

Graham cracker A graham cracker (pronounced or in America) is a sweet flavored cracker made with graham flour that originated in the United States in the mid-19th century, with commercial development from about 1880. It is eaten as a snack food, usually ho ...

Hardtack Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of dense biscuit or cracker made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Hardtack is inexpensive and long-lasting. It is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea voy ...

Maltose crackers Maltose crackers are a popular traditional food in Hong Kong, consisting of maltose syrup sandwiched between two saltine crackers. The popularity of the maltose cracker peaked in the 1960's and 70's as an item used in counter trading. Nowada ...

Matzo Matzah or matzo ( he, מַצָּה, translit=maṣṣā'','' pl. matzot or Ashk. matzos) is an unleavened flatbread that is part of Jewish cuisine and forms an integral element of the Passover festival, during which '' chametz'' ( leaven ...

* Mein gon * Nantong Xiting Cracker *

Oatcake An oatcake is a type of flatbread similar to a cracker or biscuit, or in some versions takes the form of a pancake. They are prepared with oatmeal as the primary ingredient, and sometimes include plain or wholemeal flour as well. Oatcake ...

* Olive no Hana *

Oyster cracker Oyster crackers are small, salted crackers, typically rounds about in diameter, although a slightly smaller hexagonal variety is also common. The crackers are often served with oyster stew and clam chowder and contain similar ingredients to sal ...

* Pletzel * Rice cracker * Saltine cracker * Taralli * Water biscuit

Brand-name crackers

* Arnott's Shapes * Better Cheddars *

BEACH ASH CRACKERS A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shells o ...

* Bremner Wafer * Captain's Wafers * Carr's *

Cheddars Cheddars are a brand of baked Cheddar cheese Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added), and sometimes sharp-tasting. Cheddar originates from t ...

Cheese Nips Cheese Nips (originally stylized as "Cheese-Nips") were a small cheese-flavored cracker manufactured by Mondelez International under its brand, Nabisco, they were originally used to compete against Sunshine Biscuit's (now Kellogg's) Cheez-It cra ...

* Cheez-Itz * Club Crackers * Crown Pilot Crackers * Drasca * Goldfish (snack) * In a Biskit * Pepperidge Farm * Premium Plus *

Rice Thins Rice Thins are a popular brand name of crackers made by Nabisco (Christie in Canada). A spin-off of Wheat Thins, Rice thins come in these flavours: *Original *Multigrain *Herb and Garlic *Bruschetta *Cheddar *Sesame *Sweet and Salty Rice Thi ...

* Ritz Crackers *

Ry-Krisp Ry-Krisp is an American brand of rye crisp bread that was introduced in 1899. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Ry-Krisp plant was purchased by Ralston Purina in 1926. In 1994, the Ralston portion of Ralston Purina was spun off into a new com ...

Ryvita Ryvita is a rye-based crispbread originally manufactured by the Ryvita Company. The company was founded in Birmingham, England, in 1925 by John Edwin Garratt, and is today a subsidiary of Associated British Foods, which in 2009 merged the Ryvita ...

SAO (biscuit) SAO biscuits are a savoury cracker biscuit that was launched in Australia in 1904 by Arnott's, the term SAO being trade marked in 1904.National Archives of Australia: Patent Office; A11708, Applications for Registration of Trade Marks, 1904, 3 ...

* Triscuit * TUC (cracker) *

Vegetable Thins Wheat Thins is a brand of baked whole grain snack food crackers distributed in the United States and Canada by Mondelez International. The product is also available in Australia through wholesaler USA Foods. Vegetable Thins, Oat Thins, Pita Thi ...

Wasabröd Wasabröd is a Swedish producer of Scandinavian style crispbread ( sv, knäckebröd). The Wasabröd company has been in business since 1919, opening its first bakery in the city of Skellefteå. Since 1983 it has been under foreign ownership, ...

Westminster Cracker Company The Westminster Cracker Company is a New England-based company established in Westminster, Massachusetts in 1828. The original building, which is depicted in its product labeling, still presently stands in the center of Westminster, although it h ...

* Wheat Thins

Rice crackers

* Rengginang * Rice cracker * Senbei

Beika

* Beika * Arare (food) *

Bakauke is a Japanese snack food. It is a thin banana-shaped senbei with various flavours added. It is manufactured by Kuriyama Beika (栗山米菓) of Niigata Prefecture is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefectur ...

* Kaki no tane * Olive no Hana * Senbei

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