rovided is a puffed snack manufactured by directly puffing beans used as a starting material with a pressurized heating extruder, said puffed snack fully sustaining a spicy flavor inherent to beans and a characteristic taste that the starting bean material originally has. A method for manufacturing a mung bean snack, said method comprising steaming mung beans having been soaked in water, then drying the same at a high temperature, supplying as a starting material the thus heated mung beans into a pressurized heating extruder, and directly puffing the same, and a mung bean snack manufactured thereby.本發明之課題係提供一種使用綠豆作為原料,利用加熱加壓式壓出機,以直接膨化方式製造之膨化點心糖食,可充分釋放出綠豆原有的香氣,以及綠豆原料具有之獨特風味之膨化點心糖食。本發明之解決方式係將浸漬於水後之綠豆進行蒸煮加工後,將完成於高溫下進行乾燥之熱處理之綠豆作為原料,投入加熱加壓式壓出機,以直接膨化方式製造之綠豆點心糖食之製造方法,以及利用該方法製造之綠豆點心糖食。