Something to chew on: Technological aspects for novel snacks.

Snacks have accompanied people for a long time, meeting our needs for something fast and filling between meals. Societies as well as technologies have changed, and so have snacks, adapting to people's daily lives, concerns and demands. Although traditional snacks such as potato chips are still ubiquitous and popular worldwide, there is not unanimity around them anymore, since many people have been looking for healthier snacks. Studies have been carried out to propose healthier snack options by changing their composition and/or techniques to produce them, minimizing contents of energy-dense components and/or maximizing the retention or bioavailability of nutrients. This mini-review presents the main trends on development of snacks as well as future perspectives. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.