Staple Foods

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain (5)
  2. 6. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the ___ plant (7)
  3. 7. Of or relating to or derived from wheat (9)
  4. 9. Grains of common ___ (5)
  5. 10. Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa (6)
  6. 13. A ribbonlike strip of pasta (plural) (7)
  7. 14. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa (plural) (4)
  8. 15. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many (5)

Down

  1. 1. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)
  2. 2. Baked food made from flour, used for sandwiches (5)
  3. 3. Small white grains grown in wet fields (4)
  4. 5. Unpolished ___ retaining the yellowish-___ outer layer (9)
  5. 8. Granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings (7)
  6. 11. A tortilla rolled cupped around a filling (plural) (5)
  7. 12. Food made from dough and shaped into forms such as spaghetti or macaroni. (5)