staple food
Example Sentences
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The department says the regulation “doubles the requirement of available foods” and “eliminates loopholes that for too long have allowed retailers to count certain snack foods toward their staple food requirements.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Rice is a staple food in the Southeast Asian nation of 286 million people.
From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026
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
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
