Staple Foods

What is the most dominant staple food around the world?

• Maize

• Meat

• Wheat

• Rice

What is the second most dominant staple food around the world?

• wheat

• maize

• rice

• Potato

Corn belongs to which kind food group?

• wheat

• maize

• root

• Millet

What is the dominant staple food in China and India?

• rice

• maize

• wheat

• barley

What is the dominant staple food in Australia?

• Weetbix

• vegemite

• rice

• wheat

In which continent are there countries where sorgham is a staple food?

• Asia

• Africa

• Australia

• North America

How many people around the world rely on rice, wheat and maize as a staple food?

• 4 billion

• 4 million

• 4 trillion

• 4 hundred thousand

What is a staple food?

• Foods that provide all of the required daily nutrients to sustain healthy living

• foods that are the hardest access

• foods that are rare in a country due to climate

• foods that constitute a dominant portion of a diet

Where does Quinoa originate?

• Polynesia

• South America

• Africa

• Asia

How many types of edible plants are there in the world?

• 500,000

• 5,000

• 50,000

• 5,000,000