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  • 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