Trail mix

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Trail mix
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Trail mix made with peanuts, raisins and M&M's
Alternative namesGorp, scroggin, schmogle
Type Snack
Place of origin United States
Main ingredients Dried fruit, grains, nuts, sometimes chocolate
Planters-brand trail mix Planters-Trail-Mix.jpg
Planters-brand trail mix
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Studentenfutter (student fodder)

Trail mix is a type of snack mix, typically a combination of granola, dried fruit, nuts, and sometimes candy, developed as a food to be taken along on hikes. Trail mix is a popular snack food for hikes, because it is lightweight, easy to store, and nutritious, providing a quick energy boost from the carbohydrates in the dried fruit or granola, and sustained energy from fat in nuts.

Contents

The combination of nuts, raisins and chocolate as a trail snack, dates at least to the 1910s, when outdoorsman Horace Kephart recommended it in his popular camping guide. [1]

Other names

In New Zealand, trail mix is known as scroggin or schmogle. [2] In Australia, the term "scroggin" is used almost exclusively, although in more recent years, "trail mix" has been imported into the jargon from the US. Some claim that the name stands for sultanas, carob, raisins, orange peel, grains, glucose, and nuts or alternatively sultanas, chocolate, raisins and other goody-goodies including nuts; but this may be a backronym. [3]

The American term gorp is often used by campers and hikers in North America. Some claim it's an acronym for "good ol' raisins and peanuts." [4] The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp, meaning "to eat greedily," so the acronyms may be folk etymology or backronyms.

In Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and several other European countries, trail mix is called student fodder,student oats or student mix in the local languages. It usually does not include chocolate.

Ingredients

Common ingredients may include:

There are common trail mix varieties, which are commonly made at home, or can commonly be found pre-mixed in supermarkets by numerous producers. [5] [6] [7]

See also

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References

  1. Kephart, Horace (1916). The Book of Camping and Woodcraft. The Macmillan Company. p.  196. A handful each of shelled nuts and raisins, with a cake of sweet chocolate, will carry a man far on the trail, or when he has lost it.
  2. Harper, Laura; Mudd, Tony; Whitfield, Paul (2002). Rough guide to New Zealand. Rough Guides. p. 1023. ISBN   1-85828-896-7 via Google Books.
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