What do they usually take with them to school and eat during recess? What do you snack on on the way to university or work? What do you buy while in the store if you feel hungry and are far from home? These bars are always on display in supermarkets. Remember for yourself: every time you stand in line at the checkout, they are the ones who come into your field of vision. The variety of chocolates is simply amazing. “Snickers”, “Mars”, “Bounty”, as well as “Picnic”, “Nuts”, “Kit-Kat” bars... Let’s talk in more detail today about Snickers candies.
About Snickers
Snickers is one of the most popular chocolate bars both in America and Russia. This product has been manufactured by Mars, Incorporated since 1930. Every second person has probably tried this delicacy at least once in their life. Many people appreciate it because it is very nutritious. Even a fairly high calorie content cannot scare away consumers. Others love Snickers candies for their unique composition and filling. Let's study them.
Should you have a Snickers drink when you're hungry?
It's easy to get hooked by marketers into choosing compact, inexpensive fast food over traditional lunch. The latter requires time and material costs, and most working people have a shortage of both. What can Snickers “offer” to the consumer, to which manufacturers assign the role of not even a snack, but a full-fledged meal?
Initially, the dessert was advertised as an alternative to traditional sports nutrition. Peanuts, combined with lots of sugar and chocolate, can really create an “energy burst”, instantly restoring your strength after a workout. Having a snack like this, you can forget about hunger for several hours.
Thanks to the high content of nuts and dairy products, the chocolate bar is rich in calcium, sodium, fluoride and iron. It contains B vitamins necessary to maintain metabolic processes.
But the sweet offer from Mars Incorporated still cannot be called useful. The harm caused by the Snickers bar is much greater than the support it provides.
Caution - danger
Nutritionists categorically do not recommend “snickers” every day, refusing regular food. With this way of eating, the famous slogan “You are not you...” sounds like a warning. It is no wonder that those who are too lazy to prepare lunches and dinners, replacing them with high-calorie snacks, will have to change beyond recognition, adding extra pounds.
Eating sweet snacks provokes:
- caries;
- disturbances in the functioning of the cardiovascular system;
- endocrine diseases;
- oncology;
- obesity.
Since 1930, the composition of chocolate has undergone changes for the worse; many chemical components have appeared in it that do not add health to sweet tooths. They are especially harmful for children, whose bodies have not yet learned to withstand the crushing flow of carcinogens.
Important: it is recommended to consume no more than 50 g of sugar per day. “Snickers” lovers of sweets get 30 g at once. This is such a blow to the heart and liver, plus a huge step towards diabetes.
Candy, when consumed frequently, becomes addictive because the body requires more and more releases of endorphins. And if you then make a strong-willed decision to give up sweets, real “withdrawal” occurs, accompanied by unpleasant symptoms: worsening mood, lethargy, apathy, loss of appetite.
This does not mean that from now on the legendary chocolate bar should be completely banned. But you need to “treat yourself” to it wisely, without relying on the mythical benefits promised by advertising. Moreover, after a short burst of energy, a noticeable loss of strength follows.
Manufacturer
Besides Snickers, what other candy bars does Mars, Incorporated produce?
- "Mars";
- "Milky Way";
- “Twix;
- "Bounty".
The following chocolates and chocolate products are also produced:
- M&M'S;
- Dove;
- Maltesers (Russian "Maltesers").
Moreover, Mars LLC specializes not only in the production of chocolates. The company owns the following products:
- Pedigree (Russian "Pedigree");
- Whiskas (Russian "Whiskas");
- Kitekat (Russian: “Kitiket”);
- Sheba (Russian “Sheba”);
- Chappi (Russian "Chappy");
- Perfect Fit (Russian “Perfect Fit”);
- Juicy Fruit (Russian: “Juicy Fruit”);
- Skittles (Russian "Skittles");
- Wrigley Spearmint (Russian: "Wrigley Spermint").
Now you know what Mars, Incorporated produces.
Composition of candies
What's in Snickers candy?
- Filling: sugar, peanuts, glucose syrup, vegetable oil, milk powder, hazelnut flavor identical to natural, dried egg white, flour.
- Bar: milk chocolate, cocoa butter, sugar, whole milk powder, lactose, cocoa, emulsifiers, milk fat, Vanillin flavoring, identical to natural, skimmed milk powder.
Benefits and harms
The bar can really lift your spirits, energize you and tone you up. Its taste cannot leave any person indifferent. The benefits of peanuts in Snickers are limitless - they will help restore order in your head after prolonged brain activity.
The harm is expressed in large amounts of sugar. It is contraindicated in obesity, diabetes, allergies and diathesis. You also need to carefully monitor how much chocolate your child and teenager consumes.
Snickers filling
Each chocolate bar (like Bounty, Mars, Twix, Kit Kat) has its own shape, packaging and filling. Snickers is unique in its own way:
- Nougat based filling.
- Roasted peanuts / Seeds / Almonds / Hazelnuts.
- Caramel.
- Milk chocolate.
This is how the Snickers chocolate bar has been produced for almost a century.
Calorie content of Snickers
Do not forget that eating chocolate in large quantities can lead to weight gain and diabetes. Sweets also have an adverse effect on the cardiovascular system. Moreover, the product contains a lot of sugar and fats that are harmful to your figure.
Let's consider the calorie content and nutritional value of Snickers candies per 100 grams:
- 503 kcal;
- 9 g protein;
- 27 g fat;
- 56 g carbohydrates.
Sweets will lift your spirits, fill you with energy and replenish your strength. An ideal snack after psychological and physical stress. It also makes a great little gift for kids, a significant other, or a friend.
Original flavors
In Russia you can find a regular Snickers with peanuts, as well as a bar with hazelnuts. In 2014, she released a limited edition: Snickers with seeds in yellow packaging.
But did you know that in Europe and America you can find Snickers in other flavor variations? Let's look at some:
- Chocolate caramel, chocolate nougat, milk chocolate and peanuts.
- Snickers square with peanut butter.
- Snickers with peanut butter added (instead of caramel).
- Almond bar (instead of peanuts).
- Chocolate bar with coconut flavor.
- Almonds, caramel, marshmallow-flavored nougat, dark chocolate.
- Milk chocolate, peanuts, peanut butter.
- Puffed rice, peanuts, caramel, milk chocolate.
- Snickers with dark chocolate.
In 2021, a new limited-edition bar covered in white chocolate appeared in Russia. Mars, Incorporated also released chocolates in white glaze. Hurry up to try it while Snickers in white chocolate is still on sale!
Snickers: Don't slow down - Snickers!
Snickers bar: nougat, peanuts, milk chocolate - these ingredients have remained unchanged since 1930. The candy bar produced by the American company Mars is in demand to this day, despite how many calories there are in Snickers.
The bar manufacturer's factory began to be built in 1929 in Chicago. Currently it produces 560 chocolates per minute. It is believed that the bar was named after the name of the family's favorite horse, Mars, because she died a couple of months before mass production began. It is unknown what the fate of the name would have been if not for this tragic incident.
They say that the idea for a chocolate bar came to the mind of the company's founder, Franklin Mars, when he bought chocolate for his son and it began to melt in his hands. Then he realized that chocolate with filling inside and wrapped in packaging was much more convenient to eat while walking.
At first, the bars were sold only in the UK and Ireland and were called “Marathon”, after they began to be sold throughout the world, they had one common name: “Snickers”.
Foreign candy bars: Mars, Snickers, Bounty, Twix, Celebrations, Milky Way... after the widespread shortage in 1992 in the Soviet Union, they compared favorably with domestic ones. It must be said that at first they were very expensive for the consumer, and if such a bar was bought, then it was a real holiday for the family, it was shared among the whole family; a piece for each. Well-organized media advertising contributed to its popularization. Gradually, the prevalence of Snickers grew, and the cost decreased.
There were analogues in the country - chocolate marshmallows, chocolate with filling. But they were not able to gain such popularity as Snickers.
Currently, Snickers are very popular, as they are also a filling snack.
The price of Snickers bars remains stable, although in 2005 in the UK they began selling bars whose weight decreased by 7 g; manufacturers explained this as a concern for customers so that they do not overeat.
Snickers is not just chocolate, it can rightfully be considered a symbol of pop culture. Sales of this bar alone amount to $2 billion. Advertising plays an important role in this. Everyone knows the slogans You are not you when you are hungry, Don’t slow down - have a snicker! . The main task of advertisers is to convince people of the nutritional value and benefits of the bar. They succeeded! Statistics show that every fifth teenager eats Snickers every day.
Snickers has always added roasted peanuts to the filling, but now you can buy Snickers with seeds, almonds and hazelnuts, Snickers covered in white chocolate, and they have also begun to produce ice cream and the Snickers drink.
Nowadays, culinary experts have already come up with Snickers cheesecake and Snickers cake pops, which taste similar to a Snickers chocolate bar.
Cake
How about making an amazingly delicious Snickers dessert? You can put it at the head of the festive table or make it for evening tea. The step-by-step recipe is quite simple, even an inexperienced or novice housewife can handle it. Treat your household with some sweets.
What we need for the biscuit:
- seven chicken eggs;
- two glasses of flour;
- 3/4 cup sugar;
- glass of plant oils;
- 3/4 cup water;
- three teaspoons of baking powder;
- a teaspoon of salt;
- Art. spoon of cocoa.
What is needed for nougat:
- three hundred grams of sugar;
- five tbsp. spoons of honey;
- two egg whites;
- fifty ml of water;
- a teaspoon of lemon juice;
- a bag of vanilla sugar;
- three hundred grams of roasted peanuts.
What you need for the cream:
- fifty grams of butter;
- Art. spoon of powdered sugar;
- a can of boiled condensed milk;
- one hundred and fifty grams of roasted peanuts.
Ingredients for glaze:
- fifty grams of butter;
- two tbsp. spoons of cocoa;
- three tbsp. spoons of sugar;
- three tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
- fifty grams of peanuts.
Step-by-step cooking method:
- Prepare the sponge cake: in a bowl, beat the whites with lemon juice.
- In a separate container, beat the yolks, warm water, half the amount of sugar and vegetable oil. Add a third of the beaten egg whites.
- Mix the second half of the sugar, cocoa, salt, flour and baking powder. Add to container.
- Add the remaining two-thirds of the whipped egg white. Mix thoroughly.
- Bake the biscuit for forty minutes at 180 degrees.
- Cut the finished biscuit into four parts.
- Prepare the nougat: heat the nuts in the microwave (for three minutes). Remove the husks.
- Mix water with sugar and honey and place on the stove. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook for another ten minutes. The syrup temperature should be 140 degrees.
- Beat the egg whites, add lemon juice and vanilla sugar.
- Pour the syrup into the whites in a stream, continuing to beat them for about fifteen minutes.
- Add nuts to the blender and mix with a spoon. You can also grind them.
- Place parchment paper in the pan and grease it with butter. Spread the nougat and put it in the freezer for six hours.
- Making the cream: beat the butter with powdered sugar until the color changes (the mass should become lighter). Now you need to periodically add boiled condensed milk a tablespoon at a time, continuing to beat.
- Add peeled roasted peanuts to the cream. Mix with a spoon.
- Assembling the cake: spread cream with peanuts on the first layer. We spread the second cake layer, and on it - nut nougat. Grease the third cake with peanut cream. Cover with the fourth (last) cake layer.
- Prepare the glaze: melt the butter, add sugar and cocoa. Then add peanuts and sour cream. Mix.
- Cover the top of the cake with the pecan frosting. Place the cake in the refrigerator for forty minutes.
Serve the cake chilled with tea, coffee, milk or juice. Invite your family, friends, and neighbors to a tea party, because only together can you enjoy the amazing taste of Snickers cake. A great reason to have a heart-to-heart talk and see your loved ones.
Snickers recipe
If you cook the dish at home, it can cause a lot of harm. Snickers is no exception. For the recipe you will need:
- Egg – 2 pcs. ;
- Granulated sugar – 400 g;
- Confectionery glucose – 300 g;
- Honey – 50 g;
- Water – 50 ml;
- Peanut butter – 15 g;
- Peeled peanuts – 200 g;
- Salt – 2 pinches;
- Cream – 400 ml;
- Butter – 15 g;
- Chocolate – 450 g.
- Leave the peanuts for five minutes in an oven heated to 180 degrees.
- Remove, leave until cool, then clean.
- Crush 100 g of peanuts with a knife, pour into a plate and set aside for now.
- Pour 400 ml of cream and 300 g of sugar into a saucepan. Stir and bring to a boil. You need to take larger dishes, as the mass will grow and may escape.
- When the cream boils, add 200 g of glucose, continue stirring and cooking. Bring the temperature to 110 degrees, then turn off.
- Sprinkle with a pinch of salt, add 15 g of butter and cooked peanut seeds. Mix the resulting mass thoroughly and leave the milk filling until it cools.
- For nougat, also chop the remaining peanuts, but a little more thoroughly.
- Put honey, 100 g of glucose in a saucepan, pour in water and add 100 g of sugar. Place on the stove over medium heat. Stir until the temperature reaches 130-140 degrees. Then remove the syrup.
- Using a mixer, beat 2 egg whites and sprinkle with a pinch of salt. Without stopping the process, add the uncooled syrup. Continue the process until the mixture becomes very dense.
- Set the mixer to low, add peanut butter and peanuts. Nougat is ready!
- Place the milk filling on baking paper, cover with another sheet, roll out into a layer about 1 cm thick. Remove the paper.
- Place the nougat filling on the layer, smooth it out and leave for 2 days. Then place in the freezer for 20 minutes.
- Remove and cut into pieces approximately 2*8 cm.
- Place 300 g of chocolate in a bowl over a water bath. Melt it, heat to 40-45 degrees.
- Remove the chocolate, mix, add 150 g of chocolate bar. Stir while it melts. Once the melting process is complete, remove the whole pieces.
- Place in a water bath again, stir, heat to 32 degrees. If the chocolate gets hotter, you need to start tempering again.
- Dip the candies into chocolate, take them out, and place them on paper. Leave until hardened.
