staple food
Example Sentences
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Its agro-ecological diversity is critical for subsistence farming and staple food crops, such as avocados, cassava and maize, as well as export products like cocoa, coffee, bananas and cotton.
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025
The reason was simple - rice is the staple food in the country.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025
When last we discussed eggs, in January, the staple food was growing scarce and expensive.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2025
For hundreds of thousands of years our species has incorporated it as a staple food, and its preparation has been perfected throughout history.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024
Why only a handful of maize cobs in the whole site, when maize, at least for the elite, was a staple food?
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
