Unseen Comprehension -15 Alim (Differences in Foods)

Differences in foods.

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All over the world people do not eat the same food. It varies from place to placc. The eating habits of the people of a country depend largely on its geographical position. climate and soil. That is to say, the kinds of food that peoplee eat depend on what they can grow or afford to buy from other countries. For instance, people in the tropical countries eat a lot of fruits and vegetables which grow abundantly in these regions. The chief foods of the people of Hawaii and Polynesia in the pacific are taro roots, breadfruit and sea-food. They also eat a lot of limes, coconuts, bananas and pineapples which grow in these islands. The Indians of Central America eat mostly fruits and vegetables which they easily get around them. 

Again the Eskimos live almost entirely on meat and fish because vegetables cannot grow in the ice-covered regions. It is interesting to note that the word "Eskimo" itself means the ''eater of fish'' In fact, a lot of fish is eaten raw by  the Eskimos. Meat is eaten in the countries that have large pastures for grazing livestock. Large meat-eating  countries are Australia, Argentina, Canada and the USA.

It is quite natural that fish should be an important food in the countries with large sea-coasts. Sweden, Norway,Denmark, Finland and Japan are examples of such countries. Much of the food of Japan, which is a country of islands, comes from the sea. They eat a lot of sea-food such as shrimps and oyesters, as well as mineral-rich seaweed. Thus we see that the kinds of food that people eat vary throughout the world.