Meat snacks are the third biggest category of salty snacks in the US and also the fastest-growing sub-segment, according to Mintel. Sales of meat snacks - such as jerky, pork scratchings, salami sticks, kabanosy (Polish pork sausage) and biltong (a spicy South African dried meat snack) - are on the rise as consumers search for high protein, low carb snacks, reported the market researcher.