Most adults snack either once or twice a day, and a large amount have a positive opinion towards their own snacking habits.

Are sweet products more popular as snacks than savoury products?

Is the market - and consumer taste - actually being adequately catered for?

In this report, Mintel has chosen to examine the entire snacking market, comprising of UK retail sales through grocery and other retail outlets such as off licences and petrol station forecourts. In order to compare the different sectors and to analyse the interactions at work, data on sales through leisure outlets such as public houses are excluded. It should be noted that for some sectors this results in a different market value to that given in the corresponding Market Intelligence report.

Most adults snack either once or twice a day, and a large amount have a positive opinion towards their own snacking habits.

Are sweet products more popular as snacks than savoury products?

Is the market - and consumer taste - actually being adequately catered for?

In this report, Mintel has chosen to examine the entire snacking market, comprising of UK retail sales through grocery and other retail outlets such as off licences and petrol station forecourts. In order to compare the different sectors and to analyse the interactions at work, data on sales through leisure outlets such as public houses are excluded. It should be noted that for some sectors this results in a different market value to that given in the corresponding Market Intelligence report.

Mintel has previously produced reports on snacking foods within Market Intelligence series. The most recent of these are:

- Sweet Biscuits, Market Intelligence, November 1999

- Non-sweet Biscuits, Market Intelligence, October 1999

- After School Snacking, Market Intelligence, September 1999

- Nuts and Dried Fruit, Market Intelligence, July 1999

- Crisps and Snacks, Market Intelligence, May 1999

- Impulse Ice Cream, Market Intelligence, February 1999

- Chocolate Confectionery, Market Intelligence, November 1998

- Sugar Confectionery, Market Intelligence, October 1998

- Adult Snacks, Market Intelligence, May 1998

- Cake Bars and Cereal Bars, Market Intelligence, February 1998

Other Mintel reports of relevance to this market are:

- Cakes, Market Intelligence, June 1998

- Yogurts, Market Intelligence, July 1998

- Ice Cream, Market Intelligence, January 1999

- Pocket Money, Market Intelligence, January 1999.