Food Group Snacks

Snacks are an increasingly complex type of food; most are multi-ingredient items that may include both plant and animal products. The snack section includes multiingredients foods such as corn, rice and wheat-based snacks, fruit leathers, and meatbased snack foods such as jerkies and sausage sticks. The number of foods has been greatly expanded since snacking behaviors are prominent in the US diet. Recent changes to the Snacks food group include the introduction of some new items, including reduced sodium, sodium-free and reduced sugar versions of existing snack foods, reformulated items with low or no added trans fats, and an increase in brand name profiles.