Staple food

Staple food - Wheat
Staple food – Wheat

The category “staple food” in the World Crops Database includes food crops that are the main food eaten and the main source of energy in the diet. Different countries often have different staple foods. Some of the crops included in this category used to be staple foods in the past but have now lost their importance. Example of staple foods are rice, corn and potato.



Total 29 crops found in category Staple food

1)    African rice
2)    Amaranthus spp
3)    Arracacha
4)    Banana
5)    Barley
6)    Breadfruit
7)    Cassava
8)    Durum wheat
9)    Enset
10)    Finger millet
11)    Fonio
12)    Foxtail millet
13)    Maize
14)    Oat
15)    Oca
16)    Plantain
17)    Potato
18)    Rice
19)    Rye
20)    Sago palm
21)    Sorghum
22)    Sorghum spp
23)    Spelt wheat
24)    Sweet potato
25)    Taro
26)    Tef
27)    Wheat
28)    White yam
29)    Yam


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Staple food - Pearl millet
Staple food – Pearl millet
Staple food - Rice
Staple food – Rice
Staple food - Corn or Maize
Staple food – Corn or Maize
Staple food - Potato
Staple food – Potato
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