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What are the three main components of China's diet?

China's diet is mainly composed of staple food, non-staple food and drinks.

First, staple food (the most common and important material content in China people's diet concept)

Staple food is the food and food products that China people gradually formed and shaped under the long historical conditions of agricultural production, and used to obtain the main nutrients needed by the human body. Including rice and flour.

Second, non-staple food

In food culture, non-staple food is a kind of physical food relative to staple food, and it is a supplement to staple food. Such as dishes, small ones

Dishes, etc. The raw materials available for cooking dishes and side dishes in nature belong to the category of non-staple food.

Third, drinks

Tea and wine are the main drinks that China people have attached great importance to and loved since ancient times. Today, people of all ethnic groups in China still have tea and wine inherited from their own historical and cultural accumulation. Tea and wine are an important part of China's diet.