Food Plants International - Publications Starchy staple foods
Published: 2013-12-20

- Everybody has a diet based on a starchy staple food This provides the energy for living
- The starchy staple can be a root crop like potato, cassava, yam, sweet potato or taro
- Or it can be a cereal like rice, corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, tef, fonio or others
- For some regions the starchy staple is a palm such as sago, or a starchy fruit such as cooking bananas