Staple foods are group of foods that are often eaten in the quantities that constitutes of the dominant portion of a standard dietary meals, for a particular people. Thereby, supplying with a large fraction of the energy needed by the body, and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.
Staple foods are vital source of carbohydrates which provides energy for the body, and proteins, which helps repair and build the body's tissues, and allows metabolic reactions to take place and coordinates the function of the body. Staple food forms the major part of the food we consumes.
Staple foods are derived either from vegetables or animal products, and common staples which include cereals (such as rice, wheat, maize, millet, and sorghum), starchy tubers or root vegetables (such as potatoes, cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, or taro), meat, fish, eggs, milk, and cheese, and dried legumes such as lentils and other beans.
Most of the human population lives on a diet that is based on one or more of the following staple foods:
- Cereals (rice, wheat, maize (corn), millet, and sorghum)
- Roots and tubers (potatoes, cassava, yams and taro).
- Animal products such as meat, milk, eggs, cheese and fish.
- Regional staple foods, which includes the plants rye, soybeans, barley, oats, and teff.
Roots and tubers are important staple foods for over one billion people in the developing world, that is accounting for about 40 percent of the food eaten by half of the population of sub-Saharan Africa. Roots and tubers are high in carbohydrates, calcium, and vitamin C, but low in protein. Cassava root, for example, is a major food staple in the developing world, a basic food source for about 500 million people.
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