As a new type of snack, puffed food is more and more popular among consumers. With the emergence of healthy and nutritious puffed food, people's inherent thought of "junk food" has been subverted. In fact, puffing is only a physical processing technology and will not cause harm to the human body.

Puffed food is a new type of food that appeared in the late 1960s. It is also called extruded food and light food abroad. With the public's love for snacks, more and more puffed foods have become a category of snack foods. However, many people are also discouraged when they love it, because of their inherent thought of puffed food "junk food".

Puffed food is the first successful product to apply extrusion technology to food processing. The first category is a product that takes rice, corn and other grains and potatoes as the main raw materials, which are extruded and formed into loose and porous products, and then obtained through simple processing. Such as corn fruit, puffed shrimp strips, etc.

The other is the puffed sandwich snack food made by extrusion, that is, the cereal material is extruded to form a hollow tube. Through the sandwich pump and co-extrusion die, the filling is injected into the middle of the tube while the puff is extruded. The processed products here have a crisp taste, and the flavor varies with the change of the filling. By changing the formula of the filling, various nutritionally enhanced foods and functional foods can be processed.

Two products such as peanut cakes and yam strips are extruded and puffed by wheat flour, which is a healthy and nutritious puffed food. Theoretical basis and experience for reference. Therefore, as a kind of snack food, puffed food like this cannot be equivalent to replacing the staple food, but the protein and carbohydrates rich in its raw materials can still play a certain supplementary role in nutrition.

And is puffed food harmful to the human body? According to relevant authorities, the puffing processing technique will not cause harm to the human body. People's inherent concept of puffed food comes from this lack of understanding, and puffing is only a physical processing technology. For the production of puffed food, a preparation process has been developed, which is not only updated from the equipment, but also strictly controlled from the food processing process, so that everyone can recognize puffed food and taste healthy and nutritious leisure puffed food.