Corn snack

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Corn snacks are snack foods made from corn (maize). They are often marketed, packaged and flavoured in a similar way to potato crisps.

Extruded

Extruded corn snacks come in "puffed" and "crunchy" varieties. They include:

Puffcorn
- Cheese puffs and varieties (cheese curls, corn sticks, cheese balls, etc.)
- Seasoned "fries" such as Andy Capp's fries
- Umaibō, cylindrical corn snack from Japan
- Bugles crispy cones

Chips

Corn chips
Tortilla chips
Rolled corn chips, such as Takis
Pop Chips (popcorn chips)

Other

References

↑ Booth, R. Gordon (1990). Snack Food. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-442-23745-5.
↑ Lusas, Edmund W.; Rooney, Lloyd W. (5 June 2001). Snack Foods Processing. CRC Press. pp. 288–291. ISBN 978-1-4200-1254-5.
↑ Wright, Hunter (11 May 2026). "Salmonella concerns prompt recall of Mexican Street Corn snack, nut mixes at Target and other stores". WHEC.com.

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