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                Staple foods form the basis of people’s diets around the world.



        Many staple foods are grains  such as wheat, rice, and corn                                                                                                      . They



        vary from country to country. Wheat is important in the United



        States while rice is the most commonly  grown crop in the world                                                                                                                 .


        People also get                                    herbs and spices                                       from plants to flavor food.



        Plants such as  sugarcane and sugar beets                                                                            provide sugar, which



        sweetens food.





                   such as wheat, rice, and corn                                                              herbs and spices


                   sugarcane and sugar beets                                                                  grown crop in the world





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