SCROGGIN MIXES:

Whatever your favourite Scroggin mix we can make it for you. Our standard mixes are awesome. We use only the best dired fruit, nuts, seeds, chocolate and other delectable sweet treats to entice you up the steep slopes.

Whether you call is Scroggin, Trail Mix, studentenfutter or Gorp - to us it is all the same - in principle at least. Just a bunch of delicious food item mixed up and packaged for your munching pleasure.

Scroggin, Trail Mix, Studentenfutter or Gorp is a snack food commonly consumed during outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, backpacking, mountaineering, and camping.

Common ingredients include:

* Nuts, such as peanuts or cashews
* Dried fruits such as cranberries or raisins
* Chocolate chips or M&M's
* Breakfast cereals
* Seeds, such as sunflower seeds
* Granola
* Carob chips
* Shredded coconut
* Pretzels

This food mixture is termed "scroggin" in New Zealand and Australia, and studentenfutter in German-speaking countries. A mix of only nuts (especially those rich in omega-3 fatty acids) and raisins is known as "student food".

Trail mix is an ideal snack food on the trail. It is lightweight and easy to store, because all of its ingredients are desiccated. It is also very energy rich, providing quick energy from the carbohydrates in the dried fruit and/or granola, as well as sustained energy from the mostly mono- and polyunsaturated fats in nuts.

Two backronyms for the word gorp, an alternate name for trail mix, are Good Old Raisins and Peanuts and Granola Oats Raisins and Peanuts. Some assume that gorp is an actual acronym for one of those phrases (or alternatively for "Gobs Of Raw Protein"), but it is probably a folk etymology. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1913 reference to the verb gorp, meaning "to eat greedily".