Talk:Staple food

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====Staple (cooking)====   
Typical example of wiktionary term. Pfortuny 16:50, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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message: Typical example of wiktionary term. Pfortuny 16:50, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Staple (cooking)]]

message: I'm not an expert; however, Maize (the grain) and Sweet Corn (the vegetable) should be prominantly added as two staple food items on this page.  With respect to corn you have corn starch, corn meal and corn syrup which are significant ingredients to many manufactured food products. In the USA, the UK and other places, the poorer folk grow corn in their cornfields and eat corn a lot more than rice, which is listed very prominantly here.;) --Ermeyers 01:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add Maize and Corn to this list of staple foods 

message: This table includes a wheat column, but the data appears to be for wheat germ. This same table has been copied into several articles (see my contribs for some others I tagged). I suggest that all the data be verified and then make the table into a separate page which can be transcluded into this and the other articles. Also, the section heading has an odd title. Sparkie82 (t•c) 00:30, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Synopsis of major staple food

message: The charts are impossible to read (maps of the world of kilocalories/person/day) because the units are a non-SI unit of measurement only used in archaic systems. Please update the maps to use SI units, or both. Specifically, the units are not specific i.e. there are two types of calorie and they are not specified.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.64.159.41 (talk) 13:35, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charts 

message: Will anyone who does not know the difference between the use of the word "food" as a mass noun and "foods" as referring to types of food, kindly stop changing the article. The altered text makes no sense in context. JonRichfield (talk) 20:58, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Food vs foods

message: Some of the staple foods identified are not correctly displaying accurate nutritional content.  The data would be best verified using the USDA nutritional database.  Yams as an example, show vitamin A at several times magnitude more concentrated than is possible in a 100g sample.  The page should be taken down as this table is cited in multiple works and is false.
Starting point: 
http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3313?fg=&man=&lfacet=&count=&max=25&qlookup=yam&offset=&sort=&format=Abridged&reportfmt=other&rptfrm=&ndbno=&nutrient1=&nutrient2=&nutrient3=&subset=&totCount=&measureby=&_action_show=Apply+Changes&Qv=1&Q6301=1.0
Basic Report:  11601, Yam, raw  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.177.218 (talk) 20:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nutritional Values are Not Valid; hyperlink not valid 

message: I am concerned that the nutritional value of the foods in the table is misleading, because the nutrient levels are not adjusted for energy, making the grains look more nutritious than they actually are. In addition, some of the grain products are whole, while others are refined--it doesn't seem reasonable to compare white rice to whole wheat, when white and brown rice and whole and refined wheat are all staple foods. I believe that the above issues represent biases and I would correct them, but I don't know how to edit the table. I would appreciate any help.
Alázhlis (talk) 03:18, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias in nutritional value? 

message: Tomato production in 2008 was 141 million tonnes. 
Cabbages - 64.8 million tonnes.
Cucumbers - 58.5 million tonnes.
I guess the reason why they are not called staple food is because, even though they are consumed on a large scale, they are usually not a dominant portion of the diet and they are not so energy rich like starch-based food.
However, considering the fact that their world production is so high, it would be nice to highlight them in the top ten staple food table.
Also it would be nice to highlight the sugarcane, since it's production is so high, as someone else noticed it.
Question: Is there a specific category of food that includes staple food and vegetables like tomato and cabbage? Something more narrow than "vegetables". Then a new table, including the mentioned vegetables might fit into the corresponding article.
—  Ark25  (talk) 21:20, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other dominant vegetables 

message: This term can also apply to animals, for example (re: Sugar gliders):  "Each group defends a certain number of eucalyptus trees which provide the group with its staple food source."  
I considered adding what is essentially a truism to the lead (this term can apply to animals), but a cursory search didn't find a source to cite for the general case.  Instead, I am posting here for comments or consensus.  —Eric:71.20.250.51 (talk) 08:24, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animals? 

message: The link with sugar in the lead seems not WP:RS.. Then only "sugar" happens to be in the table, mostly 15 g in Plantain. That may be a staple food somewhere, but then not as "sugar".
Googling "sugar Staple food" I found:
http://www.sweet-sugar-gliders.com/sugar-glider-food-dry-staple-food.html ..
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-staple-food-of-the-US ..
http://time.com/2812756/how-sugar-went-from-a-condiment-to-a-diet-staple/
"Sugar used to be a condiment, but now it’s a diet staple. Soda, juice, sweetened coconut water, sweetened teas, Frappuccinos—these are all desserts. Foods with added sugar are dessert if any form of sugar is one of the first three ingredients. Granola is dessert. Fruit-flavored yogurt is dessert. Chinese chicken salad is dessert. The American Heart Association limits kids to 4 teaspoons, and adults to 6-9 teaspoons, of added sugar per day. Yet a typical school breakfast consists of a bowl of Froot Loops and a glass of orange juice. That’s 11 teaspoons of added sugar!"
How many teaspoons make a "staple"? Is the doctor really just saying too much?
Non-RS source FAO? doesn't even list sugar (for North America in any form or elsewhere except "sugar cane" but not in bold) and: "throughout the world, complementary foods play an essential role in meeting nutrient requirements. They include protein sources - meat, poultry, fish, legumes and milk products; energy sources - fats, oils and sugars" comp.arch (talk) 15:07, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugar really a "staple food"? 

message: The lead section cites  as a reference for the claim that some fruits are staples, but this page appears to have moved. I've just reverted a (good-faith) edit that broke this reference, and I believe that editor was attempting to fix the link, but I don't have enough information to find the desired page by googling or looking at the page history. Should the link be changed to point to the internet archive?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jake-low (talk • contribs) 12:01, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken citation link; page has moved and I can't find it 

message: I think there is a mistake in the nutrition table where the sweet potato's vitamin A content is 14,187 IU when the RDA is 5,000 IU. The wiki article of the sweet potato does not indicate that its vitamin A content is 3 times the RDA.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtanti (talk • contribs) 11:33, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweet potato vitamin A 

message: The article commercial sorghum says: “The national annual average yield in world's largest-producing country, the US, was 4.5 tonnes per hectare”. --Chricho ∀ (talk) 11:49, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  86.7t/ha/a of sorghum in the US? 

message: Please see Template_talk:Comparison_of_major_staple_foods#Fresh%2Fdry_comparisons regarding a proposed change to the template transcluded in this article. SmartSE (talk) 12:14, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Staple crop comparison table 

message: Very staply food 💀 82.132.233.144 (talk) 09:17, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Staple food