A sweet tooth, a salt fix, or even someone who is on a diet or watches what they eat has a snack here and there. It's true, America has a love affair with food, and the 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend study shows which brands Americans are likely to reach for when they’re hungry. What are your favorite snack foods? 

The Harris Poll ranks America's favorite snack foods in 8 different categories...

The Chocolate Candy Category:

  1. Hershey's Kisses Chocolate Candy
  2. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Chocolate Candy
  3. M&M's Peanut Chocolate Candy
  4. M&M's Plain Chocolate Candy
  5. Hershey's Milk Chocolate Candy Bars

The Non-Chocolate Candy Category:

  1. Life Savers Candy
  2. Jolly Rancher Candy
  3. Tootsie Pops Candy
  4. Skittles/Starburst Candy

Gum:

  1. Extra Gum
  2. Dentyne Gum
  3. 5 Gum
  4. Trident Gum
  5. Orbit Gum

Premium Chocolate Candy:

  1. Ghirardelli Chocolate
  2. Godiva Chocolate
  3. Dove Milk Chocolate Candy

Cookies:

  1. Oreo Cookies
  2. Pepperidge Farm Milano Cookies
  3. Keebler Fudge Shoppe Fudge Stripes Cookies
  4. Nilla Wafers
  5. Pepperidge Farm Soft Baked Cookies

Energy Bars:

  1. Clif Energy Bars
  2. Odwalla Energy Bar
  3. Luna Energy Bar
  4. Kashi Go Lean Energy Bar
  5. Power Bar Energy Bar

Popcorn:

  1. Orville Redenbacher Popcorn
  2. Pop Secret Popcorn

Salty Snacks:

  1. Lay's Chips
  2. Doritos Chips
  3. Tostitos Chips
  4. Cheez-It Crackers
  5. Fritos

Yogurt:

  1. Chobani Greek Yogurt
  2. Yoplait Refrigerated Yogurt
  3. Dannon Refrigerated Yogurt
  4. Stonyfield Farm Refrigerated Yogurt
  5. Stonyfield Oikos-O Greek Yogurt

 

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