This is a list of crackers. A cracker is a

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typically made from a

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and usually manufactured in large quantities. Crackers (roughly equivalent to savory

biscuits A biscuit is a flour-based baked and shaped food product. In most countries biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also b ...

in the United Kingdom and the

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) are usually flat, crisp, small in size (usually or less in diameter) and made in various shapes, commonly round or square.

Crackers

Animal cracker An animal cracker is a particular type of cracker, baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or a circus, such as a lion, a tiger, a bear, or an elephant. The most common variety is light-colored and slightly sweet, but ...

Bath Oliver A Bath Oliver is a hard, dry biscuit or cracker made from flour, butter, yeast and milk; often eaten with cheese. It was invented by physician William Oliver of Bath, Somerset around 1750, giving the biscuit its name. History When Oliver ...

Cream cracker Cream cracker is a flat, usually square, savoury biscuit. The name "cream crackers" refers to the method in which the mixture is creamed during manufacture. The cream cracker is traditionally prepared using fermented dough. They are made from w ...

Crispbread Crispbread ( sv, knäckebröd (lit. crack bread), ''hårt bröd'' (hard bread), ''hårdbröd'', ''spisbröd'' (stove bread), ''knäcke'', da, knækbrød, no, knekkebrød, fi, näkkileipä or näkkäri, et, näkileib, is, hrökkbrauð, fo, k ...

Cheese cracker The cheese cracker is a type of cracker prepared using cheese as a main ingredient. Additional common cracker ingredients are typically used, such as grain, flour, shortening, leavening, salt and various seasonings. The ingredients are formed in ...

Graham cracker A graham cracker (pronounced or in America) is a sweet flavored cracker made with graham flour that originated in the United States in the mid-19th century, with commercial development from about 1880. It is eaten as a snack food, usually ho ...

Hardtack Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of dense biscuit or Cracker (food), cracker made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Hardtack is inexpensive and long-lasting. It is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly dur ...

* Maltose crackers *

Matzo Matzah or matzo ( he, מַצָּה, translit=maṣṣā'','' pl. matzot or Ashk. matzos) is an unleavened flatbread that is part of Jewish cuisine and forms an integral element of the Passover festival, during which '' chametz'' (leaven and ...

Mein gon Mein gon (面干 miàn-gān), informally referred to as crunchy noodles or crunchy chow mein, are a type of noodle-shaped cracker (or dried biscuit) used in American Chinese cuisine. American Chinese cuisine In American Chinese cuisine, the mei ...

* Nantong Xiting Cracker *

Oatcake An oatcake is a type of flatbread similar to a cracker or biscuit, or in some versions takes the form of a pancake. They are prepared with oatmeal as the primary ingredient, and sometimes include plain or wholemeal flour as well. Oatcakes a ...

Olive no Hana is one type of bite-sized Japanese rice cracker (''arare'') which is made by Uegakibeika Co. Ltd. in Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan. It is an assortment of crackers which has many savory flavors, squares of edible kelp (''kombu'') and dried, th ...

Oyster cracker Oyster crackers are small, salted crackers, typically rounds about in diameter, although a slightly smaller hexagonal variety is also common. The crackers are often served with oyster stew and clam chowder and contain similar ingredients to sa ...

Pletzel Pletzel, platzel or pletzl (, , cookie or cracker) is a type of Jewish flatbread similar to focaccia. Overview A type of pletzel smothered in onion and poppy seeds is known as the ''onion pletzl'', ''onion board'' or ''onion flat'' in the US. It ...

Rice cracker A rice cracker is a cracker made from rice. Types by region Japan *, a dry Japanese confectionery made from rice. **Arare (food), a bite-sized Japanese rice cracker *** ''Oriibu no hana'' ('olive flower') **Senbei ** Kaki no tane ** Katabutsu, ...

Saltine cracker A saltine or soda cracker is a thin, usually square cracker usually made from white flour, sometimes yeast (although many are yeast free), and baking soda, with most varieties lightly sprinkled with coarse salt. It has perforations over its surf ...

Taralli Taralli are toroidal Italian snack foods, common in the southern half of the Italian Peninsula. A cracker similar in texture to a breadstick, a pretzel, a bublik, a Sushki or baranki, taralli can be sweet or savory. Sweet taralli are sometim ...

Water biscuit A water biscuit or water cracker is a type of savoury cracker. They are thin, hard and brittle, and usually served with cheese or wine. Originally produced in the 19th century as a version of the ship's biscuit, water biscuits continue to be po ...

Brand-name crackers

Arnott's Shapes Arnott's Shapes are a popular line of savoury biscuits produced by Arnott's in Australia and New Zealand. They were first introduced in Victoria by Brockhoff Biscuits in 1954. Savoury was the first flavour, followed soon by barbecue, chicken c ...

Better Cheddars Better Cheddars is a snack food brand of baked cheese crackers that are prepared using cheddar cheese as a main ingredient. Better Cheddars are manufactured by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Mondelēz International. In the United States, Better Chedda ...

BEACH ASH CRACKERS A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from Rock (geology), rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle beach, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological so ...

* Bremner Wafer *

Captain's Wafers Captain's Wafers is an American brand of crackers that is made by Lance Inc. They are light buttery crackers typically served with soups and salads. They are mentioned specifically in the song "Camel Walk" by Southern Culture on the Skids Sou ...

Carr's Carr's is a British biscuit and cracker manufacturer, currently owned by Pladis Global through its subsidiary United Biscuits. The company was founded in 1831 by Jonathan Dodgson Carr and is marketed in the United States by Kellogg's. Histor ...

* Cheddars *

Cheese Nips Cheese Nips (originally stylized as "Cheese-Nips") were a small cheese-flavored cracker manufactured by Mondelez International under its brand, Nabisco, they were originally used to compete against Sunshine Biscuit's (now Kellogg's) Cheez-It crac ...

* Cheez-Itz *

Club Crackers Club Crackers are crackers made by the Kellogg Company. They are somewhat similar in resemblance to saltines, but are rectangular and have 18 holes in a 3x6 pattern instead of the 13 holes in a 3-2-3-2-3 pattern that are on a saltine. Also, thei ...

Crown Pilot Crackers Crown Pilot was a brand of cracker popular in much of New England in the United States. It was manufactured by Nabisco (a subsidiary of Kraft Foods as of 2000) until it was discontinued in the first quarter of 2008. The cracker was unsalted, and ...

* Drasca *

Goldfish (snack) Goldfish are fish-shaped crackers manufactured by Pepperidge Farm, which is a division of the Campbell Soup Company. The crackers have been available in several varieties and, since 1962, 40% of the crackers contain a small imprint of an eye an ...

* In a Biskit *

Pepperidge Farm Pepperidge Farm is an American commercial bakery founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, who named the brand after her family's 123-acre farm property in Fairfield, Connecticut, which had been named for the pepperidge tree. A subsidiary of the Camp ...

Premium Plus Premium (Premium Saltine Crackers) is a brand of soda Cracker (food), cracker produced by Nabisco. It is known as Premium Plus (Premium Plus Salted Tops) in Canada, under the Christie (formerly, Mr. Christie) banner. In the United States it is m ...

Rice Thins Rice Thins are a popular brand name of crackers made by Nabisco (Christie in Canada). A spin-off of Wheat Thins, Rice thins come in these flavours: *Original *Multigrain *Herb and Garlic *Bruschetta *Cheddar *Sesame *Sweet and Salty Rice Thi ...

Ritz Crackers Ritz Crackers is a brand of snack cracker introduced by Nabisco in 1934. The original style crackers are disc-shaped, lightly salted, and approximately in diameter.. Each cracker has seven perforations and a finely scalloped edge. Today, the R ...

Ry-Krisp Ry-Krisp is an American brand of rye crisp bread that was introduced in 1899. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Ry-Krisp plant was purchased by Ralston Purina in 1926. In 1994, the Ralston portion of Ralston Purina was spun off into a new comp ...

Ryvita Ryvita is a rye-based crispbread originally manufactured by the Ryvita Company. The company was founded in Birmingham, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and S ...

* SAO (biscuit) *

Triscuit Triscuit is a brand name of snack crackers which take the form of square baked whole wheat wafers. Invented in 1900, a patent was granted in 1902 and the Shredded Wheat Company began production the next year in Niagara Falls, New York. Histor ...

TUC (cracker) TUC () is a brand of salted octagonal golden-yellow crackers, comparable in taste to Ritz crackers. The TUC brand originated in Belgium, and belonged to French company LU. Nowadays, TUC crackers are owned by Mondelēz International, which mar ...

* Vegetable Thins *

Wasabröd Wasabröd is a Swedish producer of Scandinavian style crispbread ( sv, knäckebröd). The Wasabröd company has been in business since 1919, opening its first bakery in the city of Skellefteå. Since 1983 it has been under foreign ownership, ...

Westminster Cracker Company The Westminster Cracker Company is a New England-based company established in Westminster, Massachusetts in 1828. The original building, which is depicted in its product labeling, still presently stands in the center of Westminster, although it has ...

Wheat Thins Wheat Thins is a brand of baked whole grain snack food crackers distributed in the United States and Canada by Mondelez International. The product is also available in Australia through wholesaler USA Foods. Vegetable Thins, Oat Thins, Pita Th ...

Rice crackers

Rengginang ''Rengginang'' or ''ranginang'' is a kind of Indonesian thick rice cracker, made from cooked glutinous sticky rice and seasoned with spices, made into a flat and rounded shape, and then sun-dried. The sun-dried ''rengginang'' is deep fried wit ...

Senbei are a type of Japanese rice cracker. They come in various shapes, sizes, and flavors, usually savory but sometimes sweet. Senbei are often eaten with green tea as a casual snack and offered to visiting house guests as a courtesy refreshment. ...

Beika

Beika In Japanese, describes a ''higashi'' (dry Japanese confectionery) that is made out of rice. Major types include: * ''senbei'' * ''okaki'' * ''arare'' * '' kaki no tane'' Some types of ''senbei'' may use wheat flour or barley flour instead of ...

Arare (food) is a type of bite-sized Japanese cuisine, Japanese Cracker (food), cracker made from glutinous rice and flavored with soy sauce. The size and shapes are what distinguish ''arare'' from ''senbei.'' The name is chosen to evoke hailstones – smalle ...

Bakauke is a Japanese snack food. It is a thin banana-shaped senbei with various flavours added. It is manufactured by Kuriyama Beika (栗山米菓) of Niigata Prefecture is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefect ...

Kaki no tane Kaki may refer to: People * Abubaker Kaki (born 1989), a Sudanese middle-distance runner * Kaki King (born 1979), a musician Places Iran * Kaki, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province * Kaki, Iran, a city in Bushehr Province * Kaki Distric ...

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