Table 1.
Snack Name and Description | Weight of Snack, ga | Total Fat, g | Fat per 100-g Serving, g | Saturated Fatty Acidsb | Monounsaturated Fatty Acidsb | Polyunsaturated Fatty Acidsb | Trans Fatty Acidsb |
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Packaged unlabeled snacks | |||||||
Bhindi (wheat puffs) | 4.00 | 0.32 | 8.00 | 61.27 | 19.11 | 18.45 | 0.53 |
Sweet biscuits (1 biscuit) | 5.40 | 0.76 | 14.07 | 53.72 | 33.28 | 11.43 | 0.00 |
Salted biscuits (1 biscuit)c | 4.50 | 1.56 | 34.67 | ||||
Rusk (dry biscuit, twice-baked bread) | 8.00 | 1.68 | 21.00 | 44.42 | 13.70 | 40.77 | 0.29 |
Pao (bread buns) | 2.00 | 0.08 | 4.00 | 34.13 | 18.96 | 41.53 | 1.15 |
Fan (wafer-shaped, flaky, salted pastry puffs) | 28.78 | 6.91 | 24.01 | 87.00 | 2.17 | 0.51 | 10.25 |
Open snacks | |||||||
Mixture (salted tidbits in a pack-mix of wheat and lentils) | 10.00 | 6.48 | 64.80 | 42.79 | 36.71 | 12.22 | 0.39 |
Mathri (fried, salted thick wheat crackers) | 11.00 | 6.29 | 57.18 | 18.19 | 22.79 | 57.76 | 1.26 |
Moong dal (savory lentils) | 21.00 | 3.74 | 17.81 | 59.39 | 19.41 | 18.15 | 0.60 |
Soan papdi (a flaky sweet made of graham flour) | 20.00 | 7.80 | 39.00 | 62.94 | 12.05 | 15.03 | 9.86 |
Freshly prepared snacks | |||||||
Samosaa (potato-stuffed, deep-fried, salted, refined-wheat flour pockets) | 79.25 | 23.46 | 29.62 | 60.21 | 14.25 | 13.27 | 10.35 |
Kachori (deep-fried, salted, puffed bread made of wheat flour) | 55.70 | 17.82 | 31.99 | 45.73 | 1.84 | 31.49 | 11.67 |
Bread pakora (deep-fried graham flour–coated bread triangles) | 67.50 | 32.13 | 47.60 | 25.95 | 23.24 | 41.36 | 0.37 |
Bhatura (deep-fried, leavened, puffed bread made of refined wheat flour) | 33.00 | 3.30 | 10.00 | 47.01 | 37.40 | 9.09 | 0.00 |
The weight reflects the serving size in which the snack was sold in the village markets, with the exception of biscuits, which refers to the weight of 1 biscuit.
Expressed as a percentage of total fatty acids.
Fatty acid profile not available.