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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Diet staples?

What are 'diet staples'?
  

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First of all, staples are things that are considered essential or necessary. These are not fixed but depend on the person and the situation. For food, staples are considered bread, meat, and water (or sometimes milk) - the bare essentials needed to survive.

  • First of all, staples are things that are considered essential or necessary.
  • These are not fixed but depend on the person and the situation.
  • For food, staples are considered bread, meat, and water (or sometimes milk) - the bare essentials needed to survive.
  • ( fluids, carbohydrates and protein) As for diet staples, assuming you are not using diet in the sense of weight loss then the above would be diet staples.
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First of all, staples are things that are considered essential or necessary. These are not fixed but depend on the person and the situation.

For food, staples are considered bread, meat, and water (or sometimes milk) - the bare essentials needed to survive. ( fluids, carbohydrates and protein)

As for diet staples, assuming you are not using diet in the sense of weight loss then
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So, for example, in some parts of the world bread is a staple of the diet, and in other parts of the world bread is rarely eaten and rice is a staple.

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