With healthy snacking options on the rise, consumers still look for standard indulgences, according to a new report by Geneva, Ill.-based flavor company FONA International.

A new Mintel study confirms that snacking today is nearly ubiquitous.

Overall, sales in the salty snack category grew 4.32 percent over the last year, for a total increase of $21.3 billion in the last 52 weeks ending July 12, 2015, reports IRI, a Chicago-based research firm.

Turns out more and more lonely hearts club folks are eating snacks as meal. Or at least all the hearts of people who just don’t want to deal with other people right now.

Sweet snacking? That seems a bit limited you might say. Well, only if you want to limit yourself.

The global snacking industry generated $374 billion in annual sales in the year ending March 2014, according to Nielsen sales figures — and it's growing.

The American consumers’ love affair with snacking began more than 100 years ago with the humble and timeless potato chip.

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If you’re looking for a quick snack, odds are you’ll grab a chocolate bar in a convenience store and then hop in your car to unwrap it and take a bite — all before the sun goes down.