膨化

pénghuà
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to puff up (grains, snacks)
  2. 2 to pop (corn into popcorn); to extrude under heat/pressure

Examples

Yùmǐ jīngguò gāowēn gāoyā kěyǐ pénghuà chéng bàomǐhuā.
Corn can be puffed into popcorn through high temperature and pressure.
Zhè jiā gōngchǎng zhuānmén shēngchǎn pénghuà shípǐn.
This factory specializes in producing puffed snack foods.

Tips

usage
Most often seen as 膨化食品 (pénghuà shípǐn, 'puffed snacks') — the umbrella category for chips, cheese puffs, rice crackers and similar extruded snacks in Chinese supermarkets and nutrition labels.
memory
(péng, 'to swell / expand') shows up across the same idea: 膨胀 (péngzhàng, 'to inflate / expand'), (péngdà, 'to bulge'). Pair with - ('-ize') to get 'swell-ify' = puff up.

Stroke Order

péng
huà