staple food

基本解释

Wheat may be Pakistan's staple food, but milky chai (tea) is the national drink.
麥子可能是巴基斯坦的主要食物，但是嬭茶則是國民飲品。
Processed foods, very high in salt, trans fats, and sugar, have become the new staple food in nearly every corner of the world.
鹽、糖和反式脂肪含量極高的加工食品已成爲幾乎遍及世界各個角落的新型主要食品。
This is because their staple food, milkweed, is being used more and more as a garden ornament.
這是因爲它們的主要食物乳草被越來越多的用於園林裝飾。

Rice is a staple food in Cuba and the country consumes more than 700,000 tons of rice a year.
A economists say higher food prices will only increase the problems faced by the region's poor, who are highly dependent on rice as a staple food.
Some economists say prices for rice, the staple food for much of the world's population, could be returning to levels that sparked inflation fears in much of Asia last year.

The ahuacate, a pebbly-skinned, pear-shaped fruit, had been a staple food in Mexico, and Central and South America since 500 B.
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