Bamba (snack)

Bamba
	Peanut-butter-flavored Bamba
Course	Snack
Place of origin	Israel
Created by	Osem
Main ingredients	Peanuts, maize, Sunflower oil, salt
Variations	Sweet Bamba, Nougat-filled Bamba, Halva-filled Bamba
Food energy; (per 100 g serving)	544 kcal (2278 kJ)
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Bamba (Hebrew: במבה) is a snack made of peanut-butter-flavored puffed maize manufactured by the Osem corporation in Kiryat Gat, Israel. Bamba is one of the leading snack foods produced and sold in Israel. It was introduced in 1964.^[1] Bamba makes up 25% of the Israeli snack market.^[2]

Similar products from other domestic manufacturers include "Parpar" (Literally "Butterfly", Telma, since 2000 a subsidiary of Unilever), "Shush" (Strauss-Elite), and "Smoki" (Štark). Osem named the snack "Bamba" because it sounded like baby talk.^[3]

^ "Snacks – Bamba". osem.co.il. Archived from the original on 27 June 2012.
^ Leah Granof (11 January 2007). "The Bisli Snack attack". The Jerusalem Post. Despite the apparent popularity of Bisli, the bite-sized nosh comes in decidedly second to Israel's other national pastime, Bamba, in the hierarchy of snack foods – capturing just 15% of the snack market in comparison to Bamba's 25%.
^ Ilana Gordon (6 January 2021). "Bamba, Israel's greatest snack food, may save us all". The Takeout.

[1] "Snacks – Bamba". osem.co.il. Archived from the original on 27 June 2012.

[2] Leah Granof (11 January 2007). "The Bisli Snack attack". The Jerusalem Post. Despite the apparent popularity of Bisli, the bite-sized nosh comes in decidedly second to Israel's other national pastime, Bamba, in the hierarchy of snack foods – capturing just 15% of the snack market in comparison to Bamba's 25%.

[thetakeout-3] Ilana Gordon (6 January 2021). "Bamba, Israel's greatest snack food, may save us all". The Takeout.

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