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Snack Stick Roundup

We analyzed 59 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.

Finding the perfect Snack Stick shouldn't feel like a guessing game. At CakeID, we take food transparency seriously. We have analyzed over 59 products in this category, breaking down every ingredient list to uncover hidden additives, excessive sugar levels, and potential allergens.

Whether you are searching for strictly Vegan options, Gluten-Free snacks, or simply want to avoid high-processed foods, our algorithm ranks products based on a comprehensive Health Score. Below is our definitive ranking of the safest and healthiest Snack Stick you can buy in 2026, sorted by their ingredient purity.

Editor's Quick Picks

Detailed Reviews

Calories
500
Protein
21g
Link Snacks Inc.

Meat Snack Sticks

Ingredients: PORK AND BEEF, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, RICE BRAN, SPICES, CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, FLAVORINGS, FRUCTOSE, MOLASSES POWDER (REFINERY SYRUP, MOLASSES), HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, SMOKE FLAVOR, PAPRIK

The Good

  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
412
Protein
21g
Slim Jim

Savage Size Spicy Smoked Snack Stick

Ingredients: BEEF AND PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, TEXTURED SOY FLOUR, CORN SYRUP, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: NATURAL FLAVORS, DEXTROSE, PAPRIKA AND EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, SOY LECITHIN, CITRIC ACID, BARLEY MALT EXTRACT, SODIUM NITRITE. CONTAINS: SOY. NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, NO ARTIFICIAL COLORS

The Good

  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
0
Sugar
0g
Certified Angus Beef

Hardwood Smoked Salsa Flavored Uncured Beef Snack Sticks

Ingredients: Beef, Water, Contains 2% or less: Brown Sugar, Carrot Fiber Powder, Citric Acid, Dehydrated Vegetables (Tomato, Bell Pepper, JalapeΓ±o), Dextrose, Garlic, Natural Flavor, Paprika, Parsley, Potato Starch, Salt, Sea Salt, Spices, Sugar, Swiss Chard, Vinegar. Treated with a solution of potassium sorbate to ensure freshness and Encased in beef collagen casing.

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
473
Protein
20g
Slim Jim

Monster size smoked snack stick

Ingredients: beef, pork mechanically separated chicken, water, textured soy flour, corn syrup, salt, contains less than 2% of: natural flaucrs dextrose, paprika and extractives of paprika hydrolyzed) soy protein maltodextrin, lactic acid starter culture, barley malt extract, citric acid, soy cithin sodium nitrite. contains: soy. nutrition fact sev. size: 1 stic

The Good

  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
500
Sugar
46g
Oreo

Handisnacks oreo cookie sticks n crme dip snack packs

Ingredients: Oreo cookie sticks:unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate {vitamin b1}, riboflavin {vitamin b2}, folic acid), sugar, canola oil, cocoa (processed with alkali), high fructose corn syrup, baking soda, salt, soy lecithin, chocolate, artificial flavor, creme dip: sugar, canola and/or palm and/or palm kernel oil, artificial color, soy lecithin, artificial flavor.

The Good

  • ● Convenient Snack

The Bad

  • ● Contains High Fructose Corn Syrup
  • ● High Sugar Content
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Calories
500
Protein
21g
Jack Link's

Jack Link's Wild Mild Snack Stick

Ingredients: Pork and beef, mechanically separated chicken, water, salt, contains 2% or less of soy protein isolate, rice bran, corn syrup, flavorings, dextrose, fructose, molasses powder (refinery syrup, molasses), hydrolyzed soy protein, smoke flavor, paprika extractives, lactic acid starter culture, sodium nitrite, soybean oil, red 3, yellow 6.

The Good

  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
214
Protein
25g
New Primal

Snack Mates Chicken & Apple Mini Sticks

Ingredients: All-natural chicken raised without added hormones or antibiotics, dried apples, honey, sea salt, maple syrup, encapsulated citric acid, cultured celery powder (celery powder, sea salt), black pepper, cherry powder, allspice, ginger, coriander, nutmeg, beef collagen casing.

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
2270
Protein
100g
Slim Jim

Chile Limon Monster Slim Jim

Ingredients: BEEF AND PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, TEXTURED SOY FLOUR, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: SALT, DEXTROSE, NATURAL FLAVORS, SPICES, SUGAR, VINEGAR POWDER (SODIUM DIACETATE, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM CITRATE, GLUCONO-DELTA-LACTONE), MALTODEXTRIN, SODIUM PHOSPHATE PAPRIKA AND EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, CITRIC ACID, BARLEY MALT EXTRACT, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, GUM ACACIA, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN LIME JUICE POWDER, SPICE EXTRACTIVES INCLUDING PAPRIKA, SOY LECITHIN, SODIUM NITRITE, CONTAINS: SOY.

The Good

  • ● Convenient Snack

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
419
Protein
23g
Jack Links

Jalepeno Cheese Stick

Ingredients: PASTEURIZED PROCESS AMERICAN CHEESE WITH JALAPEΓ‘OS: CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, WATER, RED AND GREEN JALAPEΓ‘O PEPPERS, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SORBIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], NATURAL FLAYORING, ENZYMES. MEAT STICK: PORK, BEEF, WATER, SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, FLAVORS, CHILI PEPPER, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, DEHYDRATED TOMATO, RICE BRAN, ENCAPSULATED LACTIC ACID, SAFFLOWER OIL, ENCAPSULATED CITRIC ACID, SODIUM NITRITE. CONTAINS: MILK

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
381
Protein
24g
Cabot Creamery

Seriously Sharp Cheddar Cheese Snack Sticks

Ingredients: Fresh pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes.

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free
  • ● Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
381
Protein
24g
Happy Farms

Cheddar Cheese Snack Sticks

Ingredients: cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes, annatto (vegetable color)

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free
  • ● Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
214
Protein
25g
Mighty Spark

Chicken Snack Stick-honey and jalapeΓ±o

Ingredients: CHICKEN, GRANULATED HONEY (SUGAR, HONEY), SEASONING (BROWN SUGAR, SEA SALT, SPICES, GARLIC AND ONION POWDER), WATER, ENCAPSULATED CITRIC ACID, JALAPENO PEPPER, CULTURED CELERY POWDER (CELERY POWDER, SEA SALT)

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
500
Sugar
0g
Jack Link's

Wild Hot Snack Sticks

Ingredients: BEEF AND PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF FLAVORS, SALT, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, CORN SYRUP, RICE BRAN, DEXTROSE, FRUCTOSE, REFINER'S SYRUP, SMOKE FLAVOR, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, MOLASSES, MALTODEXTRIN, PAPRIKA (COLOR), PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, CITRIC ACID, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SODIUM NITRITE, SAFFLOWER OIL, CASING (CARAMEL, RED 3, ANNATTO). CONTAINS: SOY

The Good

  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
464
Sugar
0g
Fieras

Spicy Sticks

Ingredients: Corn Masa Flour, Water, Vegetable Oil (Cottonseed and/or Corn), Seasoning (Salt, Corn Maltodextrin, Cirac Acid, Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate, Sodium Diacetate, Red 40 Aluminum Lake, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Canola Oil, Chili Powder Lime Juice Powder, Yellow 6 Aluminum Lake, Sodium Inosinate and Guanylate, Arabic Gum, Sodium Bicarbonate, Blue 1 Alun inum Lake, Onion Powder, Natural Flavor), Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Red 40.

The Good

  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Contains Red 40 (Allura Red)
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Calories
429
Protein
21g
Old Wisconsin

Snack Sticks

Ingredients: Beef, salt, contains 2% or less of: corn syrup solids, spices, dextrose, lactic acid starter culture, natural flavorings, sodium erythorbate (made from sugar), garlic powder, sodium nitrite, water.

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
429
Protein
32g
Tillamook, Tillamook Country Smoker

Flavor Snack Stick, Jalapeno Pepper

Ingredients: Beef and pork, water, textured soy flour, contains less than 2% of th following: salt, corn syrup solids, jalapeno pepper, mustard flour, sugar, spices, sodium phosphate, citric acid, glucono delta-lactone, garlic powder, onion powder, monosodium glutamate, smoke flavoring, sodium erythorbate, natural flavorings, spice extractives, sodium nitrite.

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
484
Protein
21g
Jack Link's

Original Snack Stick

Ingredients: PORK AND BEEF, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, SALT, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, RICE BRAN, CORN SYRUP, FLAVORINGS, DEXTROSE, FRUCTOSE, MOLASSES POWDER (REFINERY SYRUP, MOLASSES), HYDROLYSED SOY PROTEIN, SMOKE FLAVOR, PAPRIKA EXTRAC

The Good

  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
467
Sugar
0g
Eatsmart Snacks

Eatsmart snacks, sea salt garden veggie sticks

Ingredients: potato flour, expeller pressed sunflower oil, potato starch, corn starch, rice flour, tomato paste, salt, potassium chloride, spinach powder, sea salt, turmeric,

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
473
Protein
20g
Slim Jim

Smoked Snack Stick

Ingredients: beef, pork, mechanically separated chicken, water, textured soy flour, corn syrup, salt, contains less than 2% of: natural flavors, dextrose, paprika, hydrolyzed soy protein, lactic acid starter culture, caramel color, malt extract, wheat flour, sodium nitrite, citric acid, soy lecithin, extractives of paprika.

The Good

  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
500
Sugar
46g
Oreo

Kraft handi-snacks oreo two compartment snacks sticks and cream 1x6.000 oz

Ingredients: Oreo cookie sticks: unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate vitamin b1, riboflavin vitamin b2, folic acid), sugar, canola oil, cocoa (processed with alkali), high fructose corn syrup, baking soda, salt, soy lecithin, chocolate, artificial flavor, creme dip: sugar, canola and/or palm and/or palm kernel oil, artificial color, soy lecithin, artificial flavor.

The Good

  • ● Convenient Snack

The Bad

  • ● Contains High Fructose Corn Syrup
  • ● High Sugar Content
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Calories
638
Protein
77g
Mighty Spark

Chicken Snack Sticks

Ingredients: chicken, water, sugar, sea salt, less than 2% rice flour, encapsulated citric acid, cultured celery powder, sea salt, smoked black peppercorn, cherry powder, colored beef collagen casing

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
500
Sugar
30g
GlicoPocky

Glico chocolate

Ingredients: Wheat flour, sugar, chocolate liquor, blend of vegetable oil (interesterified sunflower oil, palm oil), whole milk powder, palm oil shortening, contains 1 percent or less of: cocoa butter, salt, artificial flavors, yeast, lecithin, leavening (sodium bicarbonate), monoglyceride, sodium hydroxide, papain.

The Good

  • ● Convenient Snack

The Bad

  • ● High Sugar Content
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Calories
394
Protein
18g
SIMMS

SNACK STICKS BEEF SAUSAGE

Ingredients: beef, salt, contains 2% or less of: corn syrup solids, spices, dextrose, lactic acid starter culture, natural flavorings, sodium erythorbate, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, water

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
196
Protein
36g
Maui Nui

Venison Stick Peppered

Ingredients: wild harvested venison, contains less than 2% sea salt, water, organic Swiss chard powder, organic cherry powder, spices, natural flavors, citric acid, stuffed into a beef collagen casing

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
179
Protein
21g
Mighty Spark

Chicken Snack Stick - Original Salt & Pepper

Ingredients: Chicken, water, sugar, sea salt, less than 2% rice flour, encapsulated citrus acid, cultured celery powder(celery powder, sea salt) , smoked black peppercorn, cherry powder in colored beef collagen casing

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
300
Sugar
16g
Great Value

Cinnamon French Toast Sticks

Ingredients: Enriched bread (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: salt, yellow corn flour, soybean oil, datem, soy flour, mono and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, artificial flavor, enzymes, monocalcium phosphate, soy lecithin, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, calcium peroxide, calcium propionate [a preservative]), water, soybean oil, sugar, wheat flour, yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), contains 2% or less of each of the following: modified food starch, salt, dextrose, nonfat dry milk, whole egg powder, natural and artificial flavor, sodium bicarbonate, soy flour, sodium aluminum phosphate, spice, monocalcium phosphate, yeast.

The Good

  • ● Convenient Snack

The Bad

  • ● Contains High Fructose Corn Syrup
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Calories
150
Sugar
1g
Slim Jim

Smoked Snack Stick

Ingredients: Beef, Pork, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Water, Textured Soy Flour, Corn Syrup, Salt, Contains Less Than 2% of: Natural Flavors, Dextrose, Paprika & Extractives of Paprika, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Maltodextrin, Lactic Acid Starter Culture, Barley Malt Extract, Citric Acid, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Nitrite. Contains: Soy.

The Good

  • ● Low Sugar

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
250
Protein
22g
SIMMS

SNACK STICKS TURKEY SAUSAGE

Ingredients: turkey, mechaically separatet urkey, cuntains 2% or less of: salt, corn syruplids, spices, dextrose, lactic acid starter culture, sarrageenan, sodium erythorbate, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, in collagen casing, gluten free

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free

The Bad

  • ● Contains Corn Syrup
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Calories
259
Protein
22g
Greenridge Farms

Beef Snack Stick

Ingredients: BEEF, WATER CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: SEA SALT, CELERY POWDER, VINEGAR, GARLIC, NATURAL FLAVORS, IN NATURAL SHEEP CASING.

The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Sugar Free
  • ● Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Calories
0
Sugar
8g
Generic

SALAMI SNACK STICKS

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The Good

  • ● Excellent Health Score
  • ● Clean Ingredients

The Bad

  • ● Ultra Processed
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Frequently Asked Questions

Are products in the Snack Stick category always vegan?+
Not necessarily. We analyzed over 59 products in the Snack Stick category on CakeID. While some are plant-based, many contain hidden animal ingredients like milk powder, whey, or gelatin. Always check the "Is Vegan" status on our product pages.
How does CakeID rank the best Snack Stick?+
We rank Snack Stick based on their nutritional value, ingredient cleanliness (fewer additives), and vegan compatibility. Products with lower sugar and simpler ingredients rank higher.
Can I find low-calorie Snack Stick here?+
Yes! Our list highlights the nutritional details of each product. Look for the "Calories" badge on the product cards above to find low-calorie options.
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