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Famine foodA famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily-available foodstuff used to nourish people in times of extreme poverty or starvation, as during a war or famine. Quite often, the food is thereafter strongly associated with the hardship under which it was eaten, and is therefore socially downplayed or rejected as a food source in times of relative plenty. Additional recommended knowledgeFoods associated with famine need not be nutritionally deficient. A number of famine foods are extremely nutritious--thus their use to nourish and ward off hunger--but the conditions under which they were eaten are often the primary cause of people's subsequent aversion to these foods. Examples of famine foodsA number of foodstuffs have been strongly associated with famine, war, or times of hardship throughout history:
Positive uses of famine foodThe term "famine food" has also been used to describe --edible plants which are not widely cultivated as food, but which could be cultivated as an alternative food source in the event of widespread crop failure. See also
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