&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Bamba_snack.jpg) 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 |
| 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.