Corn snacks are
snack foods made from corn (
maize
Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...
). They are often marketed, packaged and flavoured in a similar way to
potato crisp
A potato chip (North American English; often just chip) or crisp (British and Irish English) is a thin slice of potato that has been either deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy. They are commonly served as a snack, side dish, or ap ...
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Extruded
Extruded corn snacks come in "puffed" and "crunchy" varieties. They include:
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Puffcorn
Puffcorn or corn puffs are puffed or extruded corn snacks made with corn meal, and baked.
Puffcorn is an extruded puffed corn snack which belongs in the snack group products made with corn grits, rice, wheat, or other cereals. Puffcorn is often ...
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Cheese puffs
Cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheese ball puffs, cheesy puffs, or corn curls are a puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders. They are manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a die th ...
and varieties (cheese curls, cheese balls, etc.)
**Seasoned "fries" such as
Andy Capp's fries
Andy Capp's is an American brand of flavored corn and potato snack made to look like French fries. The product was created in 1971 by Goodmark Foods, Inc., which licensed the name and likeness of the comic strip character Andy Capp from Publishers ...
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Umaibō
or "delicious stick" is a small cylindrical puffed corn snack from Japan. It is produced by Riska and sold by Yaokin. There are many flavors of Umaibō available, including savory flavors, such as salad, mentaiko, takoyaki and cheese; and swe ...
, cylindrical corn snack from
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
Chips
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Corn chip
Corn chips are a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop. Corn chips are thick, rigid and very crunchy. Corn chips have the strong aroma and flavor of roasted corn, and are often hea ...
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Tortilla chip
A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortillas, which are cut into triangles and then fried or baked (alternatively they may be discs pressed out of corn masa then fried or baked). Corn tortillas are made of nixtamalized corn, veget ...
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*Rolled corn chips, such as
Takis Takis may refer to:
* Takis (snack), a spicy, roll-shaped snack
* Takis Christoforidis, a Greek actor
* Takis Fotopoulos, a Greek political philosopher
* Takis Ikonomopoulos, a Greek football player
* Takis Kanellopoulos a Greek film director
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Corn nut
Corn nuts, also known as toasted corn, are a snack food made of roasted or deep-fried corn kernels. It is referred to as ''cancha'' in Peru and ''chulpi'' in Ecuador.
Preparation
Corn nuts are prepared by soaking whole corn kernels in water ...
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Popcorn
Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names also refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion.
A popcorn kernel's strong hull contains the se ...
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Maize dishes