Staple Foods

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Grains of common ___ (5)
  2. 5. Baked food made from flour, used for sandwiches (5)
  3. 6. A sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan (plural) (7)
  4. 8. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle (8)
  5. 10. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the ___ plant (7)
  6. 12. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (plural) (13)
  7. 14. Country in Asia with the Great Wall (5)

Down

  1. 1. Breakfast food eaten with milk (plural) (7)
  2. 2. Plant foods like carrots and broccoli (10)
  3. 3. Sweet food that grows on plants (plural) (6)
  4. 6. Mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits (6)
  5. 7. Consisting of or containing ___ (7)
  6. 9. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)
  7. 11. Boot-shaped country in Europe famous for pasta (5)
  8. 13. Hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief (3)
  9. 14. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (4)