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Bamba is a snack manufactured by the Osem
Osem (company)

Osem is one of the largest food corporations in Israel. Founded in 1942 as a marketing company, only four years later, the company built its first factory in Bnei Brak....
 corporation
Corporation

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 in Holon
Holon

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, Israel
Israel

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Bamba is one of the leading snack foods produced and sold in Israel. It has been marketed since 1963 with no decline in sales. Bamba makes up 25% of the Israeli snack market. The competition has come out with similar products - "Parpar" (Telma) and "Shush" (Strauss-Elite
Strauss-Elite

Strauss, formerly known as Strauss-Elite , is a food products manufacturer in Israel. It is the shared trademark of two companies - Strauss and Elite, that merged in 2004....
).

Bamba is made from peanut butter
Peanut butter

Peanut butter is a food paste made primarily from ground roasted peanuts, with or without added oil. It is popular throughout the world and is also manufactured in some emerging markets....
-flavored puffed
Puffed grain

Puffed grain includes ancient puffed grains like popcorn as well as puffed rice. Modern puffed grains are often created using high pressure.High pressure puffed grain is created by placing whole grains under high pressure with steam....
 corn
Corn

Corn may refer to:...
. Bamba contains no cholesterol
Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a lipidic, waxy alcohol found in the cell membranes and transported in the blood plasma of all animals. It is an essential component of mammalian cell membranes where it is required to establish proper membrane permeability and membrane fluidity....
, preservative
Preservative

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s or food coloring
Food coloring

A food coloring is any substance that is added to food or drink to change its color. Food coloring is used both in commercial food production and in domestic cooking....
, and is enriched with several vitamin
Vitamin

A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient in tiny amounts by an organism. A compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be biosynthesis in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet....
s.






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Bamba is a snack manufactured by the Osem
Osem (company)

Osem is one of the largest food corporations in Israel. Founded in 1942 as a marketing company, only four years later, the company built its first factory in Bnei Brak....
 corporation
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
 in Holon
Holon

File:Location_holon.pngHolon is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan in the Tel Aviv District....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....


Bamba is one of the leading snack foods produced and sold in Israel. It has been marketed since 1963 with no decline in sales. Bamba makes up 25% of the Israeli snack market. The competition has come out with similar products - "Parpar" (Telma) and "Shush" (Strauss-Elite
Strauss-Elite

Strauss, formerly known as Strauss-Elite , is a food products manufacturer in Israel. It is the shared trademark of two companies - Strauss and Elite, that merged in 2004....
).

Bamba is made from peanut butter
Peanut butter

Peanut butter is a food paste made primarily from ground roasted peanuts, with or without added oil. It is popular throughout the world and is also manufactured in some emerging markets....
-flavored puffed
Puffed grain

Puffed grain includes ancient puffed grains like popcorn as well as puffed rice. Modern puffed grains are often created using high pressure.High pressure puffed grain is created by placing whole grains under high pressure with steam....
 corn
Corn

Corn may refer to:...
. Bamba contains no cholesterol
Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a lipidic, waxy alcohol found in the cell membranes and transported in the blood plasma of all animals. It is an essential component of mammalian cell membranes where it is required to establish proper membrane permeability and membrane fluidity....
, preservative
Preservative

A preservative is a natural or synthetic chemical compound that is added to products such as foods, pharmaceuticals, paints, biological samples, wood, etc....
s or food coloring
Food coloring

A food coloring is any substance that is added to food or drink to change its color. Food coloring is used both in commercial food production and in domestic cooking....
, and is enriched with several vitamin
Vitamin

A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient in tiny amounts by an organism. A compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be biosynthesis in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet....
s. Nevertheless it contains high amounts of fat
Fat

Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Chemistry, fats are generally ester of glycerol and fatty acids....
. It has 537 calorie
Calorie

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s per 100 gram
Gram

The gram , ; symbol g, is a Physical unit of mass.Originally defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre, and at the temperature of melting ice" , a gram is now defined as one one-thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or Scientific notation kg, which itself is...
s. Bamba is certified Kosher by Badatz
Badatz

Badatz , a Hebrew acronymn for "Beit Din Tzedek," or "Court of Justice," is a modern term used for a major Jewish beit din.In Israel, the term 'Badatz' is often used to refer to the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis; however, it is not the title of this group, and other botei din use the title as well....
 Jerusalem. Some describe it as "Cheez Doodles
Cheez Doodles

Cheez Doodles are a cheese-flavored corn snack produced by Wise Foods, Inc. that are similar to Frito-Lay Cheetos, which debuted several years after Frito-Lay's snack in the 1950's....
 without the cheese."

Manufacturing process

Corn grits are "popped" under high pressure, turning them into long lines of white, puffed, unflavored Bamba. The lines are cut into nuggets and then moved to a drying chamber where they are air-baked for 20 seconds, which gives them a crispy texture. The peanut butter
Peanut butter

Peanut butter is a food paste made primarily from ground roasted peanuts, with or without added oil. It is popular throughout the world and is also manufactured in some emerging markets....
, imported from Argentina
Argentina

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, is added at the end. A worker stands on a step above the rotating drums and pours a pitcher of liquid peanut butter into each of the containers. As the drums turn, the nuggets are coated. The hot Bamba is then moved along a conveyor belt
Conveyor belt

A belt conveyor consists of two or more pulleys, with a continuous loop of material - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them. One or both of the pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward....
 to cool before packaging.

Variations

Osem also produces strawberry
Strawberry

Fragaria is the name of a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits....
-flavored Bamba that is round in shape instead of oblong and red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
 instead of the trademark color, which caused it to be dubbed by Israelis as 'Red Bamba' . The artificial food coloring that was once used has been replaced with beetroot. In 2008, Osem came out with a new Bamba flavor - nougat
Nougat

Nougat is a term used to describe a variety of similar confectioneries made with sugar or honey, roasted nut s and sometimes chopped candied fruit....
-filled. It has the same traditional peanut butter outside, but a creamy nougat filling.

Criticism

Some health experts say that Bamba should not be promoted as a "healthy" children's snack. They say this claim is deceptive, and the added vitamins in Bamba could result in over-consumption of nutrients.

See also

  • Bissli
    Bissli

    Bissli is a an Israeli wheat snack produced by the Osem corporation. It is their second largest snack brand and its two most popular flavours are "Grill" and "Barbeque," and these two flavours make up most of Bissli's sales....


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