Corn snack

Corn snacks are snack foods made from corn (maize). They are often marketed, packaged and flavoured in a similar way to potato crisps.

Extruded corn snacks come in "puffed" and "crunchy" varieties. They include:

• Puffcorn
  • Cheese puffs and varieties (cheese curls, cheese balls, etc.)
  • Seasoned "fries" such as Andy Capp's fries
  • Umaibō, cylindrical corn snack from Japan

• Corn chips
• Tortilla chips
• Rolled corn chips, such as Takis

• Corn nuts
• Popcorn