Staple food

A staple food, sometimes simply referred to as a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely, and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet in a given people, supplying a large fraction of the needs for energy-rich materials and generally a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well. The staple food of a specific society may be eaten as often as every day, or every meal, and most people live on a diet based on just a small number of staples.

Staple foods vary from place to place, but typically they are inexpensive or readily available foods that supply one or more of the three organic macronutrients needed for survival and health: carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Typical examples of staples include tuber- or root-crops, grains, legumes, and other seeds. Early agricultural civilizations valued the foods that they established as staples because, in addition to providing necessary nutrition, they generally are suitable for storage over long periods of time without decay. Such storable foods are the only possible staples during seasons of shortage, such as dry seasons or cold-temperate winters, against which times harvests have been stored; during seasons of plenty wider choices of foods may be available.

Grain (film)

Grain is an upcoming German/Turkish/French science fiction film written and directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu.

Plot

Grain is set in the near future when human survival is threatened by war and famine. Scientists and geneticists must combine forces to create a sustainable food source.

Production

The film is produced by Kaplanoğlu's company, Kaplan Films; Heimatfilm (Germany) and Arte France Cinéma (France). Part of the film was shot in Detroit, Michigan.

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Grain (disambiguation)

Grains are coarse particles such as sand particles, salt particles or seeds:

Bias knitting

Bias knitting is a method by which the grain of a knitted fabric is skewed from the vertical, by decreasing on one side and increasing on the other. The term "bias" derives from sewing, where bias refers to the diagonal between the weft and warp threads, where the elasticity of wovens is greatest.

A classic use of bias knitting is in making a saw-toothed knitted hemline for a garment, with a central double decrease flanked by single increases on either side.

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Staple (2002 album)

Staple is an album released by the band Staple.

Track listing

Staple (EP)

Staple EP is an EP released by the band Staple.

Track listing

Staple (textiles)

A staple is a fibre of a standardized length and may be of any composition, but a wool staple is an independent natural cluster of fibres, not a single fibre. A continuous fibre such as natural silk or synthetic is known as a filament rather than a fibre.

Etymology

Of uncertain origin but possibly a back-formation arising because part of the business of a wool-stapler was to sort and class the wool according to quality. According to Chambers Dictionary the actual word "staple" including staple foods and other products comes from the Low German word Stapel meaning a heap of goods to be sold.

Staple length

Staple length, a property of staple fibres, is a term referring to the average length of a group of fibres of any composition. Staple length depends on the origin of the fibres. Natural fibres (such as cotton or wool) have a range of lengths in each sample, so the staple length is an average. For synthetic fibres which have been cut to certain length, the staple length is the same for every fibre in the group.