The present disclosure provides generally for snacks with sun defense nutriments that may allow participants to safely engage in sun activities and methods related to manufacturing sun defense nutriments. Sun defense nutriments may comprise sun defense attributes that may provide sun activity protection when the sun defense nutriment is ingested. Snacks with sun defense nutriments may be customized to provide effective protection measures for a particular sun activity. In some aspects, methods of manufacturing may allow for the generation of combinations of sun defense nutriments for production of snacks. In some implementations, the combinations may be generated based on one or more criterion related to sun defense attributes, sun activities, flavors, or nutriment types, as non-limiting examples.