Snack mixes are a subset of snack food

Snack food

A snack is a portion of food oftentimes smaller than that of a regular meal, that is generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged and processed foods and items made from fresh ingredients at home....

s consisting of multiple snack items. Popular snack mixes are as follows:

Bridge mix

Bridge mix

Bridge mix or Grand Slam mix is a type of candy consisting of nuts, fruits, and "cremes" all covered in chocolate.Some common ingredients in bridge mix include:* peanuts* raisins* macadamia nuts* ju-jubes* malt* fruits* nougat* licorice...

: Nuts, raisins (or other dried fruit), and candy, all covered in chocolate

Chocolate

Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...

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Chex Mix

Chex Mix

Chex Mix is a type of snack mix that includes Chex breakfast cereal as a major component. There are several commercially produced varieties of Chex Mix, as well as non-commercial, homemade versions of the snack. Though contents vary, the mixes generally include an assortment of Chex cereals,...

: Rice, corn and/or wheat Chex

Chex

Chex is a brand of breakfast cereal, introduced in 1937 and currently manufactured by General Mills. It was originally owned by Ralston Purina, and the Chex name reflects the "checkerboard square" logo of Ralston Purina. The product line was part of the spinoff of the Ralston portion of Ralston...

, peanuts

Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...

, pretzels, and usually bagel

Bagel

A bagel is a bread product, traditionally shaped by hand into the form of a ring from yeasted wheat dough, roughly hand-sized, which is first boiled for a short time in water and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior...

 chips.

Gardetto's

Gardetto's

Gardetto's is a brand of snack mix owned by General Mills, who also owns the similar Chex Mix. The Gardetto Family Bakery was founded in 1931 in Wisconsin by Baptiste and Diane Gardetto and acquired by General Mills in 1999 however, according to the packaging the year was 1932...

: Bread sticks, rye chips, and pretzels.

Munchies: A prepackaged snack mix made by and with Lays products such as Doritos

Doritos

Doritos is a brand of seasoned tortilla chips created by Arch West and produced since 1964 by the American food company Frito-Lay ....

, Cheetos

Cheetos

Cheetos is a brand of cheese-flavored cornmeal snack made by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. Fritos creator Charles Elmer Doolin invented Cheetos in 1948, and began national distribution in the U.S. The initial success of Cheetos was a contributing factor to the merger between The Frito Company...

, pretzels, and Sun Chips

Sun Chips

Sun Chips is a brand of sun baked, rippled, multigrain chips launched in 1991 and produced by Frito-Lay....

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Trail mix

Trail Mix

Trail mix is a combination of dried fruit, grains, nuts, and sometimes chocolate, developed as a snack food to be taken along on outdoor hikes....

: These generally contain granola

Granola

Granola is a breakfast food and snack food, popular in North America, consisting of rolled oats, nuts, honey, and sometimes rice, that is usually baked until crisp. During the baking process the mixture is stirred to maintain a loose, breakfast cereal-type consistency...

, raisins, nuts, and chocolate chip

Chocolate chip

Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape. They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter.-Origin:...

s or M&Ms.

Tropical Fruit Snack Mix: Dried pineapples, dried papayas, dried mangos, dried apples, dried bananas and raisins.

' Chevdo

Chevdo

Chevdo is an Indian snack made with crisped rice, broken potato chips, dry cereal, chow mien noodles, escolar, peanuts, almonds, cashews, raisins, lentils, mung beans and is often seasoned with anise/fennel, curry, and ginger...

(or Bombay Mix

Bombay mix

Bombay Mix is the name used in the United Kingdom for a traditional Indian snack known as chiwda, chevdo, chevda or chivdo in India, or Chaṇāchura or Chanāchura in Orissa and chanachur in Bengal. The English name originates from the city of Mumbai , India...

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