Is there then a place for seafood as a staple food?
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Maize, also known as corn, is a staple food in Africa.
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Thailand's staple food has long been a factor in its politics.
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Other staple food crops had their genomes sequenced long before bread wheat.
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These bad boys are now a staple food at any July 4th cookout.
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Rice is our staple food and is eaten by 100 percent of our population.
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The root vegetable was a staple food for centuries until contact with the West.
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Volunteers have been busy preparing half a million staple food boxes for the poor.
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In a world where grain crops have become a staple food, it may not be.
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Maize is the key ingredient for sadza, a stiff porridge that is the national staple food.
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These creatures are a staple food source for other fish, birds, and other marine animals.[PeerJ]
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As CO2 concentrations rise, the levels of some key nutrients in staple food crops are lowered.
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Many cannot afford to buy ugali, a staple food, or pay school fees for their children.
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Prices for rice, Nigeria's staple food, have doubled in the two years since the policy came in.
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Tomato paste is a staple food in Nigeria but the country imports much of its supplies from China.
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Pork prices — a staple food — have soared this year due to a viral outbreak, driving up food prices.
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Staple food also includes tomatoes and 'bazlama', a flatbread made from freshly ground flour bought on the road.
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Since then, it has added infrastructure, mining, petroleum and power assets to its staple food and beverage businesses.
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And the piled-up garbage attracts rats and mice, staple food for snakes such as cobras and pythons.
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Insects are already a staple food in some parts of the world, and they're starting to gain traction elsewhere.
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Imagine major staple food crops being wiped out for a few consecutive years by drought or other extreme weather.
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The president referred to him as a "weevil" — an insect that eats corn, Zimbabwe's staple food, from the inside.
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China does not permit the planting of any genetically modified varieties of staple food crops amid deep-seated consumer opposition.
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On the island and in the diaspora, the plantain, plátano, or green cooking banana is both staple food and symbol.
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As the price of rice increases, farmers worry that the staple food will no longer be accessible to most Nigerians.
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But in Uganda, the staple food isn't corn or sweet potato; it's banana, and banana is devilishly difficult to breed.
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Maize is a staple food crop in southern Africa and a poor, worm-affected harvest is likely to have serious effects.
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Even South Africa, usually a net exporter of grains to its neighbors, has been forced to import maize, its staple food.
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Maize is the staple food in eastern and southern Africa, where in some countries it provides over half of calories consumed.
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"Low food prices reduce the incomes of farmers, especially poor family farmers who produce staple food in developing countries," he said.
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She said government stocks of maize, the staple food, were 91,326 tonnes as of March 10 - enough to last three months.
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Nigerians' love for rice Rice is a major staple food in Nigeria and a favorite holiday meal, often prepared as jollof rice.
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Chinese leaders opened the door to soyabean imports even as they clung to a policy of self-sufficiency in staple food grains.
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This has important implications not only in China but across Asia, where coal use is increasing and rice is a staple food.
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The rest of the family always eat injera, a sourdough flatbread that is Ethiopia's staple food, with red pepper instead of stew.
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Poor harvests have also pushed up market prices for staple food crops since January 2017 by more than 25%, consumer association officials said.
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The cost of essential goods including staple food spiked last month, however, as Saudis stocked up food amid fears over the coronavirus pandemic.
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Experts say there are some areas deep inside the Amazon where açaí is still considered a staple food because of its high nutritional value.
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NAFTA also resulted in a dramatic drop in the price paid Mexican farmers for corn, even as consumer prices for staple food tortillas increased.
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Even though there are adequate supplies of staple food, notwithstanding manpower and logistical challenges, any restrictions by countries reserving strategic supplies would heighten risks.
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Reports of plastic rice, sometimes intermixed with real rice, shows up every now and then, particularly in Asia where rice is a staple food item.
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Inflation could rise in the short term, especially due to crop damage and difficulties in distributing fresh food produce and staple food items, analysts said.
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But since wheat and rice are the two remaining staple food commodities subject to government support prices, they have become less competitive with other products.
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"Some pizza restaurants, for example, have been deemed eligible with pizza as the qualifying staple food based on the primary ingredient (bread)," the agency said.
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Today, it's the staple food that takes care of the drunk crowd that stumbles out of the hundreds of bars, restaurants, and clubs around Istikal.
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In a country where just about every staple food has become scarce, finding the most basic of things is both a luxury and an accomplishment.
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Researchers hope the tweak will work as well in cowpea and soybean, main sources of protein in developing countries, and in rice, a major staple food.
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The price of maize meal, Zambia's staple food, has in some cases doubled to 150 kwacha per 25 kg bag from 75 kwacha early this year.
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Large inventory levels and relatively sluggish global demand are likely to keep market conditions for staple food grains stable for at least another season, FAO said.
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San Miguel has pursued an aggressive expansion since 2008 to bolster revenues, adding infrastructure, mining, petroleum and power assets to its staple food and beverage businesses.
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Pioneer, which uses maize in many of its products, reported a decline in half-year earnings in May, weighed down by shortages in the staple food.
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Rice is a staple food for Bangladesh's 160 million people and high prices pose a problem for the government which faces a national election next year.
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Wilberforce Tushemereirwe, the Ugandan leader of the banana project, explained in an email that the cooking banana that serves as their staple food has few carotenes.
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Those polled expect the harvest to consist of 6.93 million tonnes of the staple food white maize, a slight increase from 6.87 million in CEC's June estimates.
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Inflation could rise in the short term, especially due to crop damages and distribution difficulties with regard to fresh food produce and staple food items, they said.
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Inflation could rise in the short term, especially due to crop damages and distribution difficulties with regard to fresh food produce and staple food items, he added.
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Catholic priest and rights activist John Jonga, blamed the crisis on a lack of vaccinations and a switch from more nutritious tubers to rice as a staple food.
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Greenpeace has said that GMO crops including rice, China's staple food, and corn were being illegally planted in the country and found in foods sold in local supermarkets.
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His popularity has been battered this year by a gnawing economic crisis that has caused widespread discontent, with soaring inflation and shortages of staple food products like sugar.
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Catholic priest and rights activist John Jonga blamed the crisis on a lack of vaccinations and a switch from more nutritious tubers to rice as a staple food.
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Now we're seeing the beginnings of the same debate as researchers from Iowa State, Uganda, and Australia team up to reengineer the staple food of Uganda, the cooking banana.
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China has spent billions on research of biotech crops, but it has not yet approved the planting of any GM varieties of staple food crops amid deep-seated consumer opposition.
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"Poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, for whom [quinoa] was once a nourishing staple food, can no longer afford to eat it," wrote Joanna Blythman in a scolding Guardian post.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh is to buy rice from Myanmar, putting aside worsening relations over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a shortage of the country's staple food.
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Staple food commodities such as wheat, corn and soybeans are being stored in record volumes, keeping a lid on the prices which are expected to be paid to farmers next year.
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The world must prepare for "unprecedented" shocks to the production of the crop, a staple food in many countries, climate scientists said in a paper published in the journal Science Advances.
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China does not allow cultivation of any GM varieties of corn or other staple food crops although it does permit the import of some GMO crops for use in animal feed.
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The nutritionists said, 'If you put it in the staple food crops, only a low percentage will be absorbed (by the body)' - and we have been able to show that wasn't true.
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Back then, salmon was just another staple food for the East End's Jewish migrants, enjoyed with a bagel and alongside other traditional dishes from the motherland like schmaltz herring and potato latkes.
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A Food and Agriculture Organization report last week estimated that total food production fell 9 percent in 2015, with paddy rice, the country's staple food, dropping 26 percent, the first drop since 2010.
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LUSAKA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Zambia has introduced a cap on the price of maize to keep the staple food affordable, sparking protest from commercial farmers who accused the government of bringing back price controls.
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The great bake off A long-time staple food, bread's big problem is its high glycemic index: its sugar content speedily gets into the blood stream, causing blood sugar levels to peak and crash.
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But the price of pork, which worried the government when it surged last year because of its effect on the many households for which the meat is a staple food, fell again, by 13.4%.
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Bangladesh is also set to import a total of 250,000 tonnes of rice from Thailand and India in state-to-state deals to shore up depleted stocks and combat high prices of the staple food.
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It takes a staple food of many tribes across the country — fry bread is the direct result of colonial administration and the reservation period — and uses it to think about family, history, memory and community.
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San Miguel, one of the largest conglomerates in the Southeast Asian nation, has pursued an aggressive expansion since 2008 to bolster revenues, adding infrastructure, mining, petroleum and power assets to its staple food and beverage businesses.
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She tells me that according to local folklore, the dish evolved from a pre-Hispanic indigenous method of rehydrating sun-dried beef—also another staple food in the area—in water fortified with green chiltepin chiles.
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Who would have thought that the chicken, a staple food for the millions of households and restaurants in a country of a billion people, could become an agonizing inconvenience for an ordinary family in this city.
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But after global oil prices plummeted in 2014, the government began to rethink its dependence on the resource and started investing in rice — a staple food consumed across all of Nigeria's geopolitical zones and socioeconomic classes.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Mohsen al-Gedamy has run a successful business for the past seven years importing beans, a staple food for many Egyptians, but after the currency was suddenly floated late last year he now faces bankruptcy.
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Without action to compensate for the increase in pests — including new pest management programs or crop rotation strategies — "insect-driven yield losses will result in reduced global grain supplies and higher staple food prices," the authors write.
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Yingluck believed that Thailand could unilaterally raise the price of rice to overseas buyers given its status as the world's largest exporter of the grain that is the staple food for about two-thirds of the world's population.
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Production of rice, the country's staple food, is forecast to drop almost 40 percent to 2.7 million tonnes in 2017, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said in a report on Thursday.
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Below are some of the drought-tolerant crops and methods farmers across the world are using to combat drought: Staple food crops like sorghum, cassava, sweet potato, pearl millet, cowpea and groundnut are naturally more drought-tolerant than maize.
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A recent study by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security says global warming will continue to affect staple food crops like bananas, maize and beans in sub-Saharan Africa unless farmers learn to adapt.
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San Miguel, which did not provide further details on the airport project financing, had pursued an aggressive expansion strategy since 2008 to bolster revenue, and added infrastructure, mining, petroleum and power assets to its staple food and beverage businesses.
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Inflation has been so rampant, reaching an annual rate of 70 percent in November, according to government data, that many ordinary Sudanese can no longer spend money on meat or fuul, a staple food made of cooked fava beans.
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"Rice is a staple food source for about two billion people — and the poorest of the population obtain over 50% of their daily nutrition in the form of rice," wrote Lewis Ziska, one of the authors of the study.
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Maize prices have climbed amid concerns that dry conditions in the main part of South Africa's maize belt have delayed crop plantings outside the optimum planting window, threatening yields for the staple food that is also used in livestock feed.
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The number of hungry people in the world is on the rise for the first time in a decade, and recently, global prices of staple food grains reached the highest level in more than three years, according to the United Nations.
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Inflation could rise in the short term, especially due to crop damage and difficulties in distributing fresh-food produce and staple food items, analysts said, after the recent floods and landslides, caused by the worst torrential rains in 14 years.
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The underground concrete vault in West Sussex is part of the Millennium Seed Bank, where rows of steel shelves lined with glass jars store more than 40,000 plant species at risk of extinction as climate change pressures staple food supplies.
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His wife Aisha attended the February launch of the Erisco tomato processing plant in the commercial capital Lagos, hailed by officials as the start of a new era that would end the costly business of importing tomato paste, a staple food in Nigeria.
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In a bid to combat malnutrition and "hidden hunger" — which occurs when the quality of food people eat does not meet their nutrient requirements — one Singapore-based start-up hoped that a simple yet innovative solution might be found in a staple food.
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The world has already experienced three record-breaking hot years in a row, and the rising global temperature could have profound effects for health, work and staple food supplies for hundreds of millions of people, climate scientists told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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So we have a lot of breadth around the world; now we need to deepen - in each of those countries, the big job is to capture a high percentage of the total staple food production, to make it go from non-biofortified to biofortified varieties.
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Higher productivity will cover the lower pace of consumption growth, curtailing prices of staple food commodities that are mostly expected to show a slight decline in real terms, said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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BARCELONA, March 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Without action to help farmers adjust to changing climate conditions, it will become impossible to grow some staple food crops in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, with maize, beans and bananas most at risk, researchers said on Monday.
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As I eat more of the tortilla and listen to Gil and Snukal's tortilla philosophies, the pristine, fried, flaky pieces of battered wild Pacific cod that the tortilla is supposed to contain somehow become superfluous in light of this impressive specimen of Mexico's staple food.
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"Bread is an essential staple food in many countries but is still a key source of salt in our diets due to the frequency with which we eat bread," said Mhairi Brown, a nutritionist at World Action on Salt and Health, in a statement.
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The new subsidy rules do not apply to the country's existing 20.8 million holders of cards that now help meet the staple food needs of some 68.8 million at an estimated cost to the government of 85 billion Egyptian pounds ($4.79 billion) this year.
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It also underscores fears among some of the public that the government is gearing up to gradually loosen laws that prevent the cultivation of any GM varieties of staple food crops, with Beijing already permitting the import of some GMO crops for use in animal feed.
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The worst drought in a century has scorched vast swathes of croplands, affecting around 2.7 million homes in Africa's most advanced economy where shortages of white maize - a staple food for the black majority - could reach crisis proportions by October if expected summer rains do not fall, analysts say.
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While China has produced wine for millennia, the country's modern relationship with it developed only since the '211s, when the government decided to discourage the widespread consumption of baijiu, the traditional grain-based liquors that were diverting billions of kilos of precious staple food for the production of alcohol.
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Yet the NAFTA-deregulated retail price of tortillas — Mexico's staple food — shot up 279 percent in the pact's first 2023 years as NAFTA's service sector and investment rules facilitated consolidation of grain trading, milling, baking and retail so that relatively few large firms dominated and raised consumer prices to reap extra profits.
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Ghanaian rice tastes like 'pupu,' Nigerian rice is the bestPage: Jollof riceWhen: January 15Where: Shared Services CanadaIt's understandable to have strong feelings about a staple food from home, but this government employee took it one step further by absolutely dunking on all other varieties of Jollof rice, a common dish across West Africa.
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Rice is a staple food source for over two billion peopleResearchers studied the effects of the gas on rice and it was found to contain significantly less protein, iron, zinc and B vitamins after exposure to the level of carbon dioxide our atmosphere is expected to harbor by the end of the century.
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It's such a staple food that the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University created the Khachapuri Index, an indicator of inflation in different Georgian cities calculated from the cost of a basket containing only the ingredients needed to cook one Imeretian khachapuri (flour, cheese, yeast, eggs, milk, and butter), plus energy costs (gas and electricity).
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"We decided to look at bread because it's an important staple food in diets worldwide, so people are eating quite a lot of bread on a day-to-day basis without realizing it's one of the biggest contributors to salt in our diet because it doesn't taste very salty," said Mhairi Brown, the study coordinator and a nutritionist at WASH.
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