Snacks

Overview
Snacks are small, special cans of food occasionally distributed to good, obedient Citizens throughout City 17 and others. They are usually given to replace their standard rations on various days as a reward for good performance.

Snacks come in two different variants; Sankaba and Corned Beef. While they appear different, they both have the same effect; 10 HP and armor will be given to the player upon eating them, making them the only items capable of restoring both.

It's unknown as to why they provide armor as well as health, but it's possibly due to the ingredients involved. The Combine persumably add various special ingredients to the snacks to make them delicious, and empowering. It's possible they give out these snacks to Citizens they plan on changing into Soldiers at some point, but this is unknown.

Availability
Snacks can first be found in Point Insertion, occasionally seen laying around Citizens planning to eat them. The first one is a small can of Sankaba that's lying in front of a Citizen, though he doesn't seem to show any intentions of eating it. Afterwards, three snacks can be seen in Doctor Kleiner's lab in A Red Letter Day, on a table next to a computer under a large magnifying glass. Eating these after getting the HEV suit allows the player to have a boost of health and armor before they get into their first fights.

Afterwards, they appear fairly randomly and rarely around a few locations, mostly in City 17.

Trivia
Dr. Kleiner seems to have a particular liking for snacks, as three of them can first be found on his table in A Red Letter Day, and three more can later be found as the player returns to his lab just before Anticitizen One, hidden in an item crate.