Healthy snacks

Healthy snacks should offer a variety of healthier choices to promote a person's overall health. These snacks usually have an increased amount of nutritional benefits and include snacks such as granola bars, trail mix and fruit.

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Diet snacks

If you are dieting, snacking is fine as long as the snack is low calorie. Home made snacks such as walnuts, raisins and mini chocolate chips are a great choice if the portion is controlled. Instead of waiting long periods of time between meals when dieting, this type of snacking can tide the person over until their next meal.

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Sugar-free chocolate snacks

Sugar free chocolate snacks, bars and candy have great health benefits. They contain greater amounts of antioxidants than green tea or red wine, and they contain flavonoids, which are great for the heart and prevention of certain types of cancer.

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Travel snack foods

Traveling can lead to eating unhealthy snacks and meals that are consumed on the road. Travel snacks can be both satisfying and healthy when you plan ahead.

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Sweet snacks

Popcorn and peanuts were mixed to create the first commercially successful sweet confection. With the addition of molasses, Cracker Jacks were made. Sweet snack production has steadily increased and can be divided into four categories: baked snacks, frozen sweets, chocolate candy and hard candy.

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Dried fruit snacks

Dried fruit, whether dried using a food dehydrator or naturally, are a great snack food. The most common types of dried fruits are apples, bananas, figs, kiwi, strawberries and pears.

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