staple food

常见例句

Wheat may be Pakistan's staple food, but milky chai (tea) is the national drink.
麦子可能是巴基斯坦的主要食物，但是奶茶则是国民饮品。
Processed foods, very high in salt, trans fats, and sugar, have become the new staple food in nearly every corner of the world.
盐、糖和反式脂肪含量极高的加工食品已成为几乎遍及世界各个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.
这是因为它们的主要食物乳草被越来越多的用于园林装饰。

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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The price of pork, a staple food in China, soared by nearly 57% last month, the National Bureau of Statistics reported.
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Budget plans included tax rises, a drop in real wages and the end of the subsidy on tortillas, the country's staple food.
ECONOMIST: Mexico: Cancel Christmas The