HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -A food staple is a food that makes up the dominant part of a population’s diet. Food staples are eaten regularly-even daily-and supply a major proportion of a person’s energy and nutritional needs. Food staples vary from place to place, depending on the food sources available.

Detailed explanation-2: -Staple meals are derived both from vegetables or animal products, and commonplace staples encompass cereals (including rice, wheat, maize, millet, and sorghum), starchy tubers or root greens (inclusive of potatoes, cassava, candy potatoes, yams, or taro), meat, fish, eggs, milk, and cheese.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rice, wheat, jowar and bajra takes a part of our everyday meal. Thus, they are considered as staple food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Staple foods are those that are eaten regularly and in such quantities as to constitute the bulk of the diet and supply a major proportion of energy and nutrient needs. Rice is a staple food of South India.

Detailed explanation-5: -The term means the common basis of the everyday diet in a place. Potatoes and rice are the most usual examples, but bread is not a staple food because it is a manufactured food which cannot be stored.