India, Aug. 17 -- We have all been there. You leave home in a hurry, spend an hour in traffic, rush between meetings or catch a flight, and suddenly hunger arrives. The easiest answer is usually a packet of something from the nearest shelf. But what makes an on-the-go snack a good one? Shoury Gupta, founder and CEO of Patang, shared things to check before you pick that one snack for munching.

According to Shoury, it is not simply about finding something labelled "healthy". A good snack needs to work in real life: it should taste good, be easy to carry, satisfy hunger and ideally leave you feeling better for having eaten it.

"Start with the ingredient list rather than the claims on the front," said Shoury. Familiar ingredients such as gr...