What are the cereal and potato foods?

There are many kinds of cereals and potatoes. First of all, the rice, millet, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and sorghum we eat are the main sources of calories and contain a lot of starch. The staple food in our south is rice, and in the north it is wheat. These cereals and potatoes contain relatively high starch, so diabetic patients cannot eat too many cereals and potatoes. Now let us learn about what cereal and potato foods are.

Cereal and potato foods include:

1. Potato: It is the fourth most important food crop in the world, after wheat, rice and corn. Potatoes, also known as ground eggs, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., are the tubers of the Solanaceae family. It is one of the world's five major crops along with wheat, rice, corn and sorghum.

2. Sweet potato: Also known as sweet potato, sweet potato is a light-loving short-day crop. It likes warmth, is not cold-resistant, and is relatively drought-resistant. It is mainly distributed south of 40° north latitude. The cultivated area is largest in Asia, followed by Africa, and America ranks third.

3. Rice: The finished product made after the rice is cleaned, husked, milled and sorted. The germ and endosperm of rice contain nearly 64% of rice nutrients and more than 90% of the nutrients needed by the human body. It is the staple food of people in the south.

4. Wheat: Wheat is one of the three major grains, almost all of which is used as food, with only about one-sixth used as feed. The Mesopotamian Valley is the earliest region in the world to cultivate wheat, and China is one of the earliest countries in the world to grow wheat. In 2010, wheat was the second largest grain crop in the world in terms of total production (651 million tons), second only to corn (844 million tons).

5. Sorghum: According to its properties and uses, it can be divided into edible sorghum, sugar sorghum, broom sorghum, etc. It is widely cultivated in China, with the largest number in the Northeast. Edible sorghum grains are used for food and wine making. The stalks of sugar sorghum can be made into syrup or eaten raw; the ears of broom sorghum can be made into brooms or cooking brooms; the young leaves can be dried in the shade and stored as silage, or used as feed after being dried in the sun; the caryopsis can be used as medicine, which can dry out dampness and eliminate phlegm, and calm the mind and soothe the nerves. It is an economic crop.

Additional information:

"Grains" covers a wide range, including rice, wheat, millet, soybeans and other grains. Cereals include rice, wheat, millet, soybeans, etc., which are mainly plant seeds and fruits.

Potato crops, also known as root crops, mainly include sweet potatoes, potatoes, yams, taro, etc. The product organs of this type of crops are roots and tubers, which have two physiological stages: the early growth stage and the root (stem) enlargement stage.