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Snack Foods
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. Traditionally, snacks are prepared from a number of ingredients commonly available at home without a great deal of preparation. Often cold cuts, fruits, leftovers, nuts, sandwiches, and sweets are used as snacks. With the spread of convenience stores, packaged snack foods became a significantly profitable business. Snack foods are typically designed to be portable, quick, and satisfying. Processed snack foods, as one form of convenience food, are designed to be less perishable, more durable, and more portable than prepared 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). Aside from the use of additives, the viabi ...
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Gorp
Trail mix is a type of snack mix, typically a combination of granola, dried fruit, nuts, and sometimes candy, developed as food to be taken along on hikes. Trail mix is a popular snack food for hikes, because it is lightweight, easy to store, and nutritious, providing a quick energy boost from the carbohydrates in the dried fruit or granola, and sustained energy from fatty nuts. The combination of fat nuts, raisins and chocolate as a trail snack, dates at least to the 1910s, when outdoorsman Horace Kephart recommended it in his popular camping guide '' Camping and Woodcraft''. Other names In New Zealand, trail mix is known as scroggin or schmogle. In Australia, the term "scroggin" is used almost exclusively, although in more recent years, "trail mix" has been imported into the jargon from the US. Some claim that the name stands for sultanas, carob, raisins, orange peel, grains, glucose, and nuts or alternatively sultanas, chocolate, raisins and other goodies including ...
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Chocolate
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocessed, they taste intensely bitter. In making chocolate, these seeds Cocoa bean fermentation, are usually fermented to develop the flavor. They are then dried, cleaned, and roasted. The shell is removed to reveal nibs, which are ground to chocolate liquor: unadulterated chocolate in rough form. The liquor can be processed to separate its two components, cocoa solids and cocoa butter, or shaped and sold as unsweetened baking chocolate. By adding sugar, sweetened chocolates are produced, which can be sold simply as dark chocolate (a.k.a., plain chocolate), or, with the addition of milk, can be made into milk chocolate. Making milk chocolate with cocoa butter and without cocoa solids produces white chocolate. In some chocolates, other ingredients ...
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Krupuk
' (Javanese language, Javanese) is an Indonesian cuisine, Indonesian deep frying, deep-fried Cracker (food), cracker made from starch and other ingredients that serve as flavouring. They are a popular snack in parts of Southeast Asia, but are most closely associated with Indonesian cuisine, Indonesia. ''Kroepoek'' also can be found in the Netherlands, through their Dutch East Indies, historic colonial ties with Indonesia. Etymology ''Krupuk'' in Javanese language, Javanese means "fried side dish" (made of flour, mixed with other ingredients). The word was later absorbed into other languages and stylized according to local pronunciations. In Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines, ''krupuk'' is known under a general name with minor phonetic variations. It is called "" in Indonesian, while in Malay, it is "". In Dutch, it is "'" ("oe" being equivalent to "u"), which was also the Van Ophuijsen Spelling System, original spelling prior to the estab ...
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Coconut Sugar
Coconut sugar (also known as coco sugar, coconut palm sugar, coco sap sugar or coconut blossom sugar) is a palm sugar produced from the sap of the flower bud stem of the coconut palm. Other types of palm sugar are made from the kithul palm ('' Caryota urens''), Palmyra palm, the date palm, the sugar date palm, the sago palm or the sugar palm. Used as a sweetener in many countries, coconut sugar has no significant nutritional or health benefits over other sweeteners. Manufacture Coconut sugar comes in crystal or granule form, block or liquid. Producing coconut sugar is a two-step process. It starts with harvesting or "tapping" nectar from the flower bud stem of a coconut tree. Farmers make a cut on the spadix and the sap starts to flow from the cut into bamboo containers. The sap collected is then transferred into large woks and placed over moderate heat to evaporate the moisture content of the sap. The sap is translucent and is about 80% water. At this point it is known as ...
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Rice Flour
Rice flour (also rice powder) is a form of flour made from finely milled rice. It is distinct from rice starch, which is usually produced by steeping rice in lye. Rice flour is a common substitute for wheat flour. It is also used as a thickening agent in recipes that are refrigerated or frozen since it inhibits liquid separation. Rice flour may be made from either white rice, brown rice or glutinous rice. To make the flour, the Rice hulls, husk of rice or paddy is removed and raw rice is obtained, which is then ground to flour. Types and names By rice Rice flour can be made from Indica rice, indica, Japonica rice, japonica, and wild rice varieties. Usually, rice flour ( zh, c=米粉, p=mǐfěn, , , , , , , , , ) refers to flour made from non-glutinous white rice. When made with glutinous rice (or sweet rice), it is called glutinous rice flour or sweet rice flour ( zh, c=糯米粉, p=nuòmǐ fěn, Japanese language, Japanese: ; Romanization of Japanese, romanized: ''shirat ...
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the List of countries and dependencies by area, 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Islam by country, Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's List of islands by population, most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia operates as a Presidential system, presidential republic with an elected People's Consultative Assembly, legislature and consists of Provinces of Indonesia, 38 provinces, nine of which have Autonomous administrative divisi ...
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Kue Di Bandar Udara Sultan Iskandarmuda
Kue are bite-sized snacks or desserts originally from what is now Indonesia but have since spread throughout Southeast Asia. ''Kue'' is a fairly broad term in Indonesian language, Indonesian to describe a wide variety of snacks including cakes, cookies, fritters, pies, scones, and Pâtisserie, patisserie. ''Kue'' are made from a variety of ingredients in various forms; some are Steaming, steamed, Frying, fried or Baking, baked. They are popular snacks in Indonesia, which has the largest variety of ''kue''. Because of the countries' historical Dutch East Indies, colonial ties, ''Koeé'' (kue) is also popular in the Netherlands. Indonesian ''kue'' demonstrate local native delicacies, Chinese and Indian influences, as well as European cake and pastry influences. For example, ''wajik'', ''kue bugis'', ''klepon'', ''nagasari'', ''getuk'', and ''lupis (food), lupis'' are of native origin''; while bakpia'' and ''Red tortoise cake, kue ku'' are of Chinese Peranakan origin, ''kue putu'' i ...
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Haldiram's
Haldiram Snacks Food Pvt. Ltd. , doing business as Haldiram's is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational Fast-food restaurant, fast-food restaurant Chain store, chain, founded in 1937, as a Sweets from the Indian subcontinent, confectionery and desserts shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan, by Ganga Bhishen Agarwal. It is currently based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Haldiram's is also a Fast-moving consumer goods, FMCG company as most of its restaurants have a integrated retail section, where packaged Indian snacks and Confectionery, confectioneries are sold under its own brand. History Haldiram's was established in 1937 as a retail sweets and List of snack foods from the Indian subcontinent#Namkeen, namkeen shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan. It was founded by Ganga Bhishen Agarwal, fondly known as Haldiram Ji. ''Agrawal is the grandson of the founder Ganga Bishan Agarwal, who started selling snacks from a tiny shop in Bikaner in Rajasthan and went on to create the popular Haldiram bran ...
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Samosa
A samosa () () (Hindi: समोसा) ( Persian: سمبوسه) is a fried South Asian and West Asian snack. It is a pastry with a savory filling that mostly consists of vegetables like spiced potatoes, onions, and peas, but can also include meat or fish, or even cheese. Its name originates from the Persian word sambosag (''سنبوسگ'') (meaning 'triangular pastry'). It is made in different shapes, including triangular, cone, or crescent, depending on the region. Samosas are often accompanied by chutney, and have origins in medieval times or earlier. Sweet versions are also made. Samosas are a popular entrée, appetizer, or snack in the cuisines of India, South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, Central Asia, Portugal, East Africa and their South Asian diasporas. Etymology The English word ''samosa'' derives from the Hindustani word (, ), traceable to the Middle Persian word ()
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Pani Puri
Panipuri or golgappa is a deep-fried breaded hollow spherical shell - about in diameter - filled with a combination of potatoes, raw onions, chickpeas, and spices. It is a common snack and street food in the Indian subcontinent. It is often flavoured with chili powder, chaat masala, herbs, and many other spices. Panipuri is known as Fuchka in Bangladesh and is a popular street food there and is often regarded as a national street food dish. It is especially common in Dhaka, where it can be found widely across the city, served by numerous street vendors. Names Panipuri has many regional names in the Indian subcontinent: Maharashtra and South India: panipuri; Haryana: pani-patashi; Madhya Pradesh: fulki; Uttar Pradesh: pani-ke-batashe/padake; Assam: phuska/puska; Gujarat: pakodi; Odisha: gup-chup; Punjab: gol-gappa; Delhi: golgappa/phuchka; Bengal: phuchka and Bihar: jalpooree/phuchka. History According to culinary anthropologist Kurush Dalal, chaat originated in the No ...
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Chaat
Chaat, or chāt (IAST: ''cāṭ)'' () is a family of savoury snacks that originated in India, typically served as an hors d'oeuvre or at roadside tracks from stalls or food carts across South Asia in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. With its origins in Uttar Pradesh, India, chaat has become immensely popular in the rest of South Asia. Etymology The word derives from Hindi ''cāṭ'' चाट (tasting, a delicacy), from ''cāṭnā'' चाटना (to lick, as in licking one's fingers while eating), from Prakrit ''caṭṭei'' चट्टेइ (to devour with relish, eat noisily).Oxford English Dictionary. ''Chaat''. Mar. 2005 Online edition. Retrieved 18 February 2008. Overview The chaat variants are all based on fried dough, with various other ingredients. The original chaat is a mixture of potato pieces, crisp fried bread, dahi vada or dahi bhalla, gram or chickpeas and tangy-salty spices, with sour Indian chili and saunth (dried ginger and tamarind s ...
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