Snack foods
Snacks are savory, spicy and nutty products; This also includes dried fruits, salty, cheese and lye biscuits. The Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry (BDSI) has seven specialist divisions, where the industrial manufacturers of salty snacks - in the specialist division snack items - are united .
The BDSI's range of snacks is divided into four segments:
- Potato Chips and Stack Chips
- Salty , cheese and lye pastries
- Peanuts and noble nuts including nut mixes
- Extruder products (e.g. peanut flips ).
In 2012, a product guideline for the minimization of trans fatty acids in snack items was issued as part of the overall initiative to minimize trans fatty acids in food. This guideline covers the product groups potato chips, stacked chips and extruder products and states that no partially hydrogenated oils and fats are used in the manufacture of these products.
Snacks are also offered for sale in snack machines .
Crackers
Salted peanuts
Peanut flips
Snack machine
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Product guideline for minimizing trans fatty acids in snack foods. Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry V., June 1, 2012, accessed on August 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Undesirable substances that arise when food is heated: Acrylamide & Co. Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2018 .