Top 10 Most Consumed Foods in the Middle East: Everyday Staples Across the Region
1. Bread and Other Wheat-Based Foods
If there is one food that connects much of the Middle East, it is bread.
Wheat remains the traditional staple grain across the region, and bread accompanies everything from breakfast to grilled meat and evening meals.
Popular Types of Bread
- Khubz or Arabic bread
- Pita
- Tannour bread
- Saj bread
- Iranian flatbreads
- Yemeni breads
- Lebanese flatbread
Bread is frequently eaten with hummus, labneh, cheese, eggs, meat, soups and stews.
That makes wheat-based foods arguably the most important everyday food category across much of the Middle East.
...[ Continue to next page ] By: Kriti Vaid
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