The way a meal is described affects subsequent food decisions a person makes the same day and might even have an impact on how satisfied they feel afterward. Additionally, it is crucial for the research community to take into account how different eating occasions are defined because this has an impact on how data on eating patterns are collected and interpreted. The term "Snack Products" does not have a fixed definition, despite the possibility that it could affect a person's daily eating habits as well as how data are gathered and interpreted.
Even some publications in the literature made comments about the definitional diversity and the challenge of differentiating between meals and Snack Products. Some of the most recent definitions of "Snack Products" in the literature are determined by the type of food consumed, the quantity of food ingested, the location of the eating occasion, or a combination of several of these variables.
