SNACK FOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snack food mean? 

• SNACK FOOD (noun)
  The noun SNACK FOOD has 1 sense:

1. food for light meals or for eating between meals

  Familiarity information: SNACK FOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNACK FOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food for light meals or for eating between meals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("snack food" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "snack food"):

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

potato peel; potato peelings; potato skin (crisp fried potato peeling)

chip; crisp; potato chip; Saratoga chip (a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat)

corn chip (thin piece of cornmeal dough fried)

 Context examples 

These are found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, cookies, snack foods, and other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated oils.

(Dietary Fats, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Encourage healthy eating by: • Serving more fruits and vegetables • Buying fewer soft drinks and high-fat, high-calorie snack foods • Making sure your child eats breakfast every day • Eating fast food less often • Not using food as a reward

(Obesity in Children, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)