A number of medium-sized businesses also produce extruded snacks that are reported to utilise some imported ingredients.

Physico-chemical characteristics of extruded snacks prepared from rice (Oryza sativa.

The largest component of this sector is extruded snacks which contributed 49.48 percent of the total volume sales volume in 2005.

Chips, pretzels, popcorn, extruded snacks, grain-based snack mixes and fruit-based snacks, such as fruit chips 30 g 126.

All savoury snacks consists of complex carbohydrates either potato, corn or combinations of various cereal flours to produce shaped extruded snacks or pretzels.

Reduced-fat biscuits, sweet and savory snacks, as well as extruded snacks, such as flavoured rice crisps and soy crisps, are strong performers at retail grocery stores across the country.

Shearer's Snacks is a manufacturer of snack products including potato chips, tortillas, whole grain chips, cheese curls/puffs among other extruded snacks, popcorn, pork rinds, rice crisps, wafers, cookies, and both sweet and savory biscuits.

The company produces a total of 97 products from Biscuits, Cookies, Cakes, Rusks, Extruded Snacks, Filled Wafers and controls 15% of market share in East India, Britannia being the major competitor in the region.

Walkers Crisps, he said, is the market leader for potato chips in Britain, with about a one-third market share, while Smiths Crisps is the leader in the market for "extruded snacks," like wheat puffs, with about a third of the market.