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
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
When last we discussed eggs, in January, the staple food was growing scarce and expensive.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2025
This fungus is traditionally used in Indonesia to produce a staple food called oncom by fermenting the waste products left over from making other foods, such as tofu.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 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
