Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, vitamin B1 [thiamin mononitrate], vitamin B2 [riboflavin], folic acid), soybean oil (with TBHQ for freshness), modified corn starch, dried potatoes, white cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes).

A perfectly seasoned snack mix of Cheez-It® crackers made with real cheese, salty pretzels, mini toasted bread slices, savory wheat squares, and cheese-flavored rice balls! Cheez-It® Snack Mix is perfect for after school snacks, birthdays, game days, parties... and any time cheesy satisfaction is on the table.

Be on the lookout for new Cheez-It Puff'd as it starts hitting snack aisles nationwide this February.

March 31, 1921 On March 31, 1921, Green introduced Cheez-It crackers, commonly called Cheez-Its, as a new product. The company marketed the cracker as a "baked rarebit", a reference to a dish of melted cheese over toast. On May 23, 1921, the first Cheez-It logo was submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Next an industrial mixer blends the ingredients for 14. Minutes then the batch joins other bins of dough inside a proofing. Room this is where the dough ferments for 24 hours to let the flavors.

Ingredients: Degerminated yellow corn meal, vegetable oil (soybean, high oleic soybean, canola and/or corn oil with TBHQ for freshness), whey, cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes).

Cheese is made with just four ingredients - milk, salt, culture, and rennet (the coagulant that holds the rest of the ingredients together). You can manipulate these 4 ingredients so many ways to affect flavor, smell, and texture.

But it turns out that cheese curls, puffs, balls, and doodles were invented around 1939 by an animal feed manufacturer in Wisconsin, as Ernie Smith explored for Atlas Obscura. When a grinder jammed, an employee ran some wet corn through the machinery and discovered that it puffed up while exiting the grinder.

One of the nation's "cheeziest" treasures was created right here in Dayton. Cheez-It brand crackers were first introduced in 1921 by the Green & Green Company, then located at the corners of Cincinnati and Concord streets. "You'll like Cheez-It" was an early slogan promoting these cheesy crackers.

Talk about good vibrations. These happy little crackers dance around up over and down to packaging. There are over 240 cheeses in each box.

Through. It's just kind of stair stepping down eight or ten times for that whole four minutes. So now they look like corn Puffs. But we're making cheese puffs. So bring on the tea.

According to one account, Edward Wilson noticed strings of puffed corn oozing from flaking machines in the mid 1930s at the Flakall Corporation of Beloit, Wisconsin, a producer of flaked, partially cooked animal feed. He experimented and developed it into a snack.

Extruded puffed corn snacks exist in the snack group of products and are made using corn grits, rice, wheat, or other cereals, and are often flavored with cheese, oil, chili, onion or garlic powder, and many other spices.

So now they look like corn Puffs. But we're making cheese puffs. So bring on the tea.

But it turns out that cheese curls, puffs, balls, and doodles were invented around 1939 by an animal feed manufacturer in Wisconsin, as Ernie Smith explored for Atlas Obscura. When a grinder jammed, an employee ran some wet corn through the machinery and discovered that it puffed up while exiting the grinder.

Edward Wilson, an observant Flakall employee, saw these puffs come out of the machine, and decided to take those puffs home, season them up, and turn them into an edible snack for humans - a snack he called Korn Kurls. You're noshing, in other words, on repurposed animal feed.