Snack mix is a subset of

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 ...

s consisting of multiple snack items. Popular snack mixes are as follows: * Bridge mix – Nuts, raisins (or other dried fruit), and candy, all covered in

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''); unprocesse ...

. * Chex Mix – Rice, corn and/or wheat Chex,

peanut The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics by small and large ...

s, pretzels, and usually

bagel A bagel (; ; also spelled beigel) is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. Bagels are traditionally made from yeasted wheat dough that is shaped by hand into a torus or ring, briefly boiled in water, and then baked. ...

chips. Chex cereal was introduced in 1937 by Ralston Purina. * Gardetto's – Bread sticks, rye chips, and pretzels made by General Mills, owner of the similar Chex Mix. * Munchies – A prepackaged snack mix made by and with

Frito-Lay Frito-Lay, Inc. (; ) is an American food company that manufactures, markets, and sells snack foods. It began in the early 1930s as two companies, Fritos, the Frito Company and Lay's, H.W. Lay & Company, that merged in 1961. Frito-Lay itself merg ...

products such as

Doritos Doritos () is an American brand of flavored tortilla chips produced by Frito-Lay, a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo. The concept for Doritos originated at Disneyland at a restaurant managed by Frito-Lay. In 1966, Doritos became the first ...

, Cheetos, Rold Gold Pretzels, and Sun Chips. *

Trail mix 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 sto ...

– These generally contain

granola Granola is a food consisting of rolled oats, nuts, seeds, honey or other sweeteners such as brown sugar, and sometimes puffed rice, that is usually baked until crisp, toasted and golden brown. The mixture is stirred while baking to avoid b ...

, raisins, nuts, and chocolate chips or M&M's Popular brands include Planters Nuts And Chocolate Trail Mix (from KraftHeinz), and Kirkland Signature Trail Mix (from Costco Wholesale). *Tropical Fruit Snack Mix – Dried

pineapples The pineapple (''Ananas comosus'') is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. The pineapple is indigenous to South America, where it has been cultivated for many cent ...

, dried papayas, dried mangos, dried

apples An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

, dried

bananas A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – berry (botany), botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa (genus), Musa''. In some countries, cooking bananas are called pla ...

and raisins. * Bombay mix, also known by other names (saloonia, chiwda, chevdo, bhuso, chevda, or chivdo), a spicy mix of dry ingredients originating in Indian cuisine *Tex Mex mix, including nuts, dried chili, and crunchy corn-based sticks

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