The snack market has boomed over the last decades and today people are snacking anywhere and anytime. With more-hurried lifestyles, consumers want to be able to pick up a snack and go. Snacks are even being called "the fourth meal". More than ever, a huge variety of snack foods are available to consumers, with a mix of old favorites and new interesting flavors, textures and shapes.

Chr. Hansen has kept up with this growth, offering spice extracts, natural colors, and seasonings to the snack industry, covering everything from old fashioned and traditional to trendy and unusual. Our experts understand all types of snacks including chips, popcorn, pork rinds, dips, nuts, seeds, meat sticks, jerky and extruded snacks.

We strive to deliver exciting, character-building ingredients to snack manufacturers. By continually renewing our knowledge in trends and applications, we can provide new concepts or help perfect an old standby.