History of All Human Staple Foods

History of All Human Staple Foods
Welcome to our KZbin channel! In this video, we delve into the fascinating history of staple crops that have shaped civilizations and transformed agriculture worldwide.
From the humble potato to the versatile sweet potato, and from the ancient grain sorghum to the ubiquitous wheat and rice, we explore the origins, domestication, and spread of these essential crops. Discover how maize and cassava became staples in the Americas, while soybean found its way from East Asia to every corner of the globe.
Join us as we uncover the rich history of plant domestication, agricultural practices, and the critical role these crops play in food security and cultural heritage. From the dawn of civilization to the modern era, staple crops have been at the heart of human survival and prosperity.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy this journey through time and space as we explore the fascinating world of staple crops and their impact on our lives. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more insightful content on food history, agriculture, and beyond!
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[@Didacmmv]

AI generated?

[@KnufWons]

It does repeat information in different ways in each section

[@emmett624]

The art and narration for sure. The script feels like it is also AI generated or at least entirely un-edited (maybe both). We don't need to hear about oryz japonica being the potential origin of all oryza species four separate times.

[@ItsThatSheep]

Definitely AI

[@ben6258]

Yeah this is basically a wikipedia article of a video

[@S-bl1df]

Check out the hands and feet at 12:46 haha

[@UmQasaann]

Corn, beans, squash, chili, tomato, potato, vanilla and cacao originated in the Americas.

[@xenocampanoli815]

I thought cassava was from Africa, but according to this Central America.

[@bvillafuerte765]

Yes.

[@valterzc8187]

​@@xenocampanoli815 south America

[@blackpalacemusic]

By "corn" you mean "maize", there are several grains referred to as "corn". There are also several types of beans from different parts of the world, the same with vanilla. The rest is correct.

[@denatov]

add paprika and avokado

[@Ukitsu2]

28:57 It's not a puzzle anymore. In 2023 (IIRC) human DNA was found that proves a small group of Polynesians got to the north of South America and back, at least once.

[@bonemarrow3439]

Yea and some tribes in the Amazon have Polynesian DNA

[@TheMelbournelad]

I thought that was proven a while ago not just recently. Wow. They believe the Easter islanders where more South American than Polynesian if I remember

[@yosephbuitrago897]

@@TheMelbourneladI think it was a very probable and agreed upon theory, but just somewhat recently they found hard archeological and genealogical evidence

[@TheMelbournelad]

@@yosephbuitrago897 ahh cool. I updated eastern to Easter didn’t see the typo

[@armanamini-nazarian9714]

@kawsay-vd4mv i doubt that. there were probably mostly indirect contact.

[@twiggyjali]

big thank you to peru ❤ i love potatoes, where would we be without you ❤

[@InappropriateShorts]

quite possibly healthier and more muscular.

[@BornKafir]

​@@InappropriateShortsWe have the choice to not eat as much potatoes today. Back in the day, caloric needs of people in many parts of the world wouldn't have been met without potatoes.

[@InappropriateShorts]

@@BornKafir but this isn’t back in the day and my comment wasn’t about back in the day.

[@BornKafir]

@@InappropriateShorts You just wanted to make an inappropriate assumption about another person's health without knowing anything about their life. I see that.

[@InappropriateShorts]

@@BornKafir I see you don’t know what the word “possibly “ means. 😂🤣

[@wannacashmeoutside]

Anyone else find it a little mind boggling that potatoes have only been a staple of European diets for about 500 years.

[@Badpoison1]

No, because they're native to the Americas

[@elvenkind6072]

Not more then petroleum have been a staple for civilization for about 100 years.

[@macysondheim]

No.

[@vbrown6445]

It is interesting how quickly new foods can become a staple of a country's diet and cuisine. Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peanuts, squash/pumpkin, cacao, and chili peppers are all "new world" foods that quickly became integral to European, African, Middle-Eastern and Asian cuisine.

[@rmp7400]

Potatoes certainly make up in life sustaining accomplishments what they lack in the shorter timeline of their European use.

[@erictaylor5462]

The difference between a plant being edible and a plant being tasty are not the same thing. I have had wilderness survival training and there are a great many plants in the forest that you can eat, but most you would eat only if you had nothing else.

[@paulmryglod4802]

I'm remembering cattail roots as a possibility? I was a kid last time i tried em and dont remember much about it except getting leeches.

[@danny75461]

That first part was amaize-ing

[@TheMelbournelad]

That is a corn y joke

[@matthewweng8483]

It was, except they misspelled maize.

[@Mermeisha]

I love watching videos like this while I clean and tend to my kitchen

[@johnpetrakis379]

What like sterile and hygienic and goes along with Mr.Clean?

[@ivythay4259]

I can tell, because you don't seem to notice the many instances of AI-generated images if you don't look at it.

[@MonkeyPooFlingers]

Kinda sad/funny/ironic that a channel named "The Art of Being Human" seems to use AI for everything....

[@peterinbrat]

Also: Chia Plantain Yam Rye Barley Oats Buckwheat Taro Amaranth Lentils Beans

[@intractablemaskvpmGy]

Yum!

[@richardwasserman]

sugarcane too

[@intractablemaskvpmGy]

@@richardwasserman Sugarcane was never a staple until recently as in only a few hundred years ago. Think about it

[@Urfavigbo]

​@intractablemaskvpmGy it's been a staple for a long time. Just not in the western world

[@juliomandiaga9612]

Plantain and lentil did not originate in the Americas

[@agoodfilter7139]

Thank goodness for Peru 👏🏾👏🏾

[@NeutronDecay]

I always wonder how people figured out the nixtamalization process

[@legoqueen2445]

Me too!

[@kaesestink]

surpisingly thorough research. a very informative and up to date video.

[@FrazierDanger]

This was made mostly using AI

[@kaesestink]

@@FrazierDanger I noticed, and am pretty surprised by the results. I would've expected way more factual mistakes. (And "thorough research" isn't the right term for ai, maybe "factual synthesis" is more fitting.)

[@Deeplycloseted435]

Farming allowed food surplus, and allowed one person labor to feed many. This freed up other people to do other things, like make tools, create written language, study mathematics, textile production, write music, create artwork……basically ALL human culture. All of our technology and advancement is based around keeping everyone fed.

[@andreaodessa9181]

Peru you are the real MVP

[@ENJIMEEREBAY]

background music is very annoying...........

[@anameglass1607]

Nice food history explanation

[@meertin298]

Oh, the irony of a channel named "The Art of Being Human" being AI-generated.

[@justinwolf7490]

This made me hungry! Awesome video!

[@josieteckart]

That was interesting, good narration. I loved it.

[@ItsThatSheep]

The narrator is AI

[@mathoskualawa9000]

This is missing the staples of taro and breadfruit.

[@kuunda8363]

I want to find this interesting, but I fell asleep watching this.

[@MisconceivedPancit]

True knowledge is boring....you could always go watch a ' professional ' wrestling match.... apparently those are more entertaining. 👍👌

[@hereigoagain5050]

Interesting video on an underappreciated topic. A follow-up on the impact of climate change on cultivation would be interesting.

[@KingofGeo]

Fun fact, Staples are not a staple food and eating them will result in an awkward conversation with your Doctor after an even more awkward MRI...

[@fathooptiebang2137]

Truly doing the lords work out here

[@juliomandiaga9612]

In the Philippines, we consider rice as staple food because it is always present on the table but there is an "Ulam" that goes with the staple food. For example, the Ulam is Fried Chicken, or stewed vegetables, or boiled something. Having grown up poor I remember our Ulam as patis (fish sauce), sometimes nothing but salt on the rice to make the rice eatable.

[@windigoking]

You need to cook them correctly

[@dmc009]

As long as you get your heart rate above 120 bpm for *at least* 30 minutes a day.... ... you can put your bacon on top of your peanut butter, on top of your banana spread... .. and then put more bacon and peanut butter on the bottom. Edit: drink water.

[@Urfavigbo]

African domestication of rice was an independent event. African rice is its own variety and not a hybrid of Asian rice. For one, why would rice skip over East Africa and be limited to West africa if it's from Asia?

[@therisashow]

I thought that they said that the African variant is NOT related to Asian rice, that it was cultivated independent from the Asian varieties. Did they backtrack and say that it’s a hybrid?

[@Urfavigbo]

@@therisashow he said that. Then proceeds to say it's a hybrid

[@andybettistube]

Why add the irritating background music? It drove me away.

[@twiggyjali]

this was a fun watch and very informative! it also made me hungry 😂

[@TheMelbournelad]

Want some of my popcorn I made half way though?

[@jamesrocket5616]

@TheMelbournelad Me

[@TheMelbournelad]

@@jamesrocket5616 sure sharing is caring

[@davidletarte214]

very informative & educational, also quite interesting!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

In the Irish Potato Famine, the US sent enough corn/maize meal to keep the country alive. But, tragically, the Irish would not eat it. They were only familiar with this grain for animal feed, and couldn’t believe that humans could eat it, a tragic, fatal paradigm. But, it’s always been widely eaten by us humans here in the Americas, both indigenous and immigrant people. It’s a staple food in Africa now, it’s even part of the Kwanza African celebration, which surprised me, it being a New World crop.

[@sstarklite2181]

Yes blame the evil UK monarchy system for the Irish Potato famine! They should be abolished immediately! A few people owned all the land and the dumb monarchy and “elites” (who got their wealth from slavery) couldn’t see why people were starving! The queen gave some piddling amount like 5,000 pounds! Insane!

[@rmp7400]

According to English Laws at the time, the Catholic Irish were PROHIBITED from eating anything other than potatoes. Therefore, when the famine occurred, the British were pleased that a million Irish Catholics starved to death. Another million Irish Catholics survived by emigrating to the United States ...where the men were immediately drafted into the Civil War to fight and die for freedoms of other people - freedom they had not experienced under the English Crown for several hundred years... Yes...life is difficult 🙏🏼

[@comment8767]

Kwanza is a recent invention

[@rplpalacio1920]

Maybe sweet potatoes were traded by fishermen and that is how they made it to Polynesia

[@Kosz6345]

Swat and Kashmir and indus civilization are in Pakistan and the famed Basmati rice originated around Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan.

[@ross9919]

Very interesting!

[@Jeriel_Lux]

I Love Learning about The History of Human Stuff while Eating Human Food. How Exciting!

[@world_still_spins]

So.. where's the beef?

[@Shay45]

Meats are not staple foods. Staple foods are foods that are available “mostly” year round and available to the everyone. They are foods that are reliable to give you calories and nutrients.

[@fritzmagyar4733]

In Argentina baby!

[@elvenkind6072]

@@fritzmagyar4733 **yum, yum, chewing some Argentina, nom, nom**

[@plant-based-carnist]

​@@Shay45Staple food is anything that became essential or important as a source of food. Corn or rice are staple crop all over. Meat is staple where livestock production is regular. Fish is staple with the Inuits.

[@steelep5623]

Finally. A video about HUMAN food. I was getting sick of all the horse food videos.

[@kierkegaardrulez]

This AI narrator’s voice is so soothing, along with the AI-generated music, that I fell asleep within 2 minutes of the video starting. I really needed that nap! Thank you!

[@user-ie1tz5rm8x]

Voice is. Nice , pleasen t and smooth..you sure it's a machine? The crispness of the ending ,,, there's a poping ,stilted ness...run it threw a e.q. and chop down the highs.

[@gumishq]

I bet it's a mechanical voice@@user-ie1tz5rm8x

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

North America also has its own variety of “wild” rice that has been domesticated much more recently

[@user-vf6nn6hx9x]

Not actually rice, but both domesticated and wild varieties of several grains used by Native American similar to rice

[@bdeas]

Where is banana, plantain, taro, oca, mashua, ullucus, groundnut, and peanut.

[@naughtynedflanders434]

There should be some commentary about Henry fords efforts in mass industrialising soybeans

[@quadkon3577]

Who is Team Rice? Click here👇

[@bvillafuerte765]

Good video.

[@icmull]

What were Australian aboriginals farming before white people?

[@alexkartinyeri3117]

some tribes also made bread. like the gomeroi people

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

@@alexkartinyeri3117 I would like to know more about this, please. Can you recommend a good resource?

[@psycho-analyticgamer7452]

Wondefully written and edited video. I like how you used AI for some of your historical photos and had it match the story you're telling

[@andresmaynez3060]

They gave 9 minutes to rice and only 3 minutes to maize!!! not fair!!!! :( BTW you missed another two crops, quinoa and amaranth

[@philomelodia]

They miss lots and lots of crops. Beans, squash, rye, oats, yams, chickpeas, lintels, barley, etc. etc. etc.

[@jimgore1278]

Lentils are the food. Lintels are an architectural feature.

[@Mytech-ch]

They gave longer time for rice maybe because it is more staple to people's diet than corn. While corn is produced more than rice, a big portion of corn goes to animals and biofuels. Rice is virtually 100% for food by people. Amaranth and quinoa are staples only to very small community.

[@justincase1228]

19:52 I'm pretty sure the "bread of the tropics" is Pana or breadfruit. I guess it depends on which tropic.

[@prototropo]

Wonderful handling of an important topic. The text is quite repetitive, however. Maize was nicely succinct in the description. But how many times do we need to hear the first variety of the first cultivation of rice, and its distribution? Also, I regret that the great agronomist, Nicolai Vavilov wasn't mentioned. His theories and work on Centers of Origin was crucial in determining where wild varieties of human food domesticates first naturally evolved. Unfortunately he died in Stalin's gulags. But his staff physically defended his seed bank during the grueling Siege of Leningrad, with each starving to death rather than eating the germ grains in Vavilov's vast and precious collection.

[@Boorger]

this seems entirely AI generated, and the comments seem like bot/bought comments.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

The captions misspell maize, it’s not maze. We call it just corn in the Americas.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

The more I watched, the more I noticed the many problems with the captions. There wasn’t “German” influence in ancient Japan, for example, is it something like Joya instead?

[@luciusiluvatar7357]

*Jomon

[@sojugon]

Scientist part of the brain: Rice likely came from China European part of the brain: lets just call it JAPONica, ITS ALL THE SAME ANYWAYS

[@aschoolofthought7262]

I am wondering what civilizations earlier than 9000 years used to eat

[@Mytech-ch]

There was no civilization before that and they rely on hunting gathering for food, not agriculture. Civilization was made possible by agriculture because by then, large groups of people can settle in one place with enough supply of food unlike hunting gathering which they need to constantly move where they can find food.

[@Jamesthegiantpeachlover]

I’m surprised taro wasn’t included.

[@bruce8443]

I note that this video covers nothing before 20,000 BCE, and covers only plant-based foods, and not any animal foods, which presumably was the main staple food before then.

[@stevehatcher7700]

I highly doubt meat was the "main staple food". 20,000 years ago, 50,000 years ago, 100,000 years ago we were grazing (gathering) various nuts, fruits, grains, legumes, roots, and leaves... constantly. They were the staple. The survival foods. Meat was an opportunistic bonus. And as we got better at making and using tools, particularly those for hunting, our opportunities for meat increased, but in no way would that have greatly diminished our base reliance on plant based foods. We were always gathering, while out hunting.

[@twiggyjali]

cultivating means staying in one spot to farm. agriculture yielded far more food per square meter than meat did, so it just makes sense people figured out how to farm grains and formed settlements to do so. meat was hunted for as needed. cultivating animals for meat is actually very costly: they consume a lot of plant material, take a long time to grow, and don't renew as quickly as plants do. while people might have had meat once or twice a week in some form, it was grain that formed civilization. as for pre-historic humans, they ate whatever they could find, and were migratory to follow the growing season. they ate far less red meat than you assume they did: hunting was dangerous and difficult, and required a great expenditure if energy to track prey. sometimes days or weeks. they ate eggs, plant matter, bark, fungi, berries and fruits, insects, and fish or seafood gleaned from tidepools if they were available. goats and sheep were the first domesticated "red meat" animals because they bred frequently and were small enough not to harm their caretakers. larger animals like oxen, cattle, donkeys, horses were typically kept for working the land and transport, not food. pigs were domesticated fairly late because wild boars are terrifying, ornery, and so dangerous. birds were kept for eggs more than their meat, as they were quite small and scrawny, nothing like the genetically enhanced birds we see today.

[@tssj8827]

Think this video was more to see the origins of our modern staple foods

[@user-uy9on2sj9h]

dont forget tubers

[@futon2345]

It’s about staple foods not meat lol

[@Whiskey61]

The real answer: Atlantis.

[@cliffmays442]

Why is it that corn spreads to what is now the U.S. and becomes a staple, one of the 3 sisters. But I have always wondered why the potato never made it to to the North. It would have done very well.

[@draculastraphouse7863]

My staple foods are meat, rice, beans and beer 😎

[@rickscaggs3089]

Music is a distraction, too loud!

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

All those different staple foods... grains and tubers... !! Yet... nothing on Australia?

[@lilliedawn7373]

Not a fan of the use of ai art

[@Dakarai_Knight]

The script is also ai.

[@Menuki]

@@Dakarai_Knightread by ai written by a human

[@Dakarai_Knight]

@@Menuki Really? The phrasing, cadence, and structure feels distinctly AI.

[@Menuki]

@@Dakarai_Knight phasing and structure are clinical and informative. It just means the writer is more accustomed to scientific or medical papers. It lacks the filler/tangents that AI writing goes off on when it’s a script this long. The cadence is from the AI TTS.

[@jamdad13]

​@@Menuki Ironic, considering the channel name.

[@junchan_3200]

Sorghum in Chinese is tall millets and I think it’s totally accurate 😂

[@cletuswyns]

I got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, chicken-turkey, chicken-turkey

[@HowdIEvenGetHere]

To the critics: staple foods are generally considered to be domesticated high-carbohydrate foods.

[@plant-based-carnist]

Staple food is not limited to carbs. Any food that became regular source of food is a staple. Meat is staple where there is regular meat supply. Fish is staple for the Inuits.

[@unbeknownstx12]

it baffles me that as a human species. water and food are something thats scarce when clearly we have domesticated and conquered it. anyone can make food and water. the fact we have to pay for it. is insane. how do we have impoverished countries this isnt the 1600s but look at all the waste in developed countries. something needs to change.

[@RedHawkin247]

Did they really leave out African yam?

[@hunchbackaudio]

As soon as you can extract alcohol out of it, it sounds like a staple food to me.

[@aga5897]

Entertaining video, reasonably good content, presuming it's entirely AI generated. Fascinating that an AI can pull all that data from the internet, generate new video footage, all focused on capturing Human Watchers for a period of time. We need to get rid of Money and Fast.

[@juno_ju]

idc whoever discovered that rice is edible, THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE RICE SM OMG

[@akashdtx]

Background music link?

[@MisconceivedPancit]

Videos like this makes me feel saf about how over produced food ( factory made ) has the nutrients almost totally depleted from the products. Makes me wonder why so many people gravitate their appetites towards ' instant ' cooking.

[@Jertie84]

Can someone with a better understanding of Etymology explain why the rice varieties we cultivate share names with Marijuana (Sativa, Indica)?

[@cliffmays442]

Wild "rice" while not true rice must be related in some way. Wild rice is found in North America and grows wildly in lakes near the shore. But is there any relation to rice?

[@RobertEskuri]

Rice is a really good food if you're hungry and want 2,000 of something. - Mitch Hedberg.

[@bluestrife28]

Neat. I think a good video idea would be how human arrogance about said staples has had a deleterious effect on the species as a whole. Like pellagra, becoming a worldwide problem after the Europeans decided the American Indian way of preparing corn wasn’t right. Or today, when companies use every tool available to confuse and poison regular people with their crap food.

[@josedelnegro46]

These are military foods. Portable foods are only needed for winter storage, times of drought and natural disaster and for military expeditions. The problem with these military foods is that if one fills up with 1/5th of all that one eats with them is that leaves less room for other foods. To eat by taste and texture is not as good as eating by need. The military grains taste great. The are mostly used to hold other foods. Like the hot dog and the buns. That is the problem and why I choose Yuka, Banana peel Mill bone mill, carrot mill, sweat potato mill, onion stem spaghetti, Dandelion stem and flower spaghetti over spaghetti pressed out from the military grains. All 8 billion of us cannot afford the military grains. I prefer to eat what naturally grows around me. Then the military grains I might eat is saved for someone eho really needs it.

[@xenocampanoli815]

What about teff?

[@LadyAleena]

I'm in my 50s and have never heard of casava.

[@katehenry2718]

WHY does this video NEEEEEED jangly music?????

[@janerkenbrack3373]

I would think lentils would also be considered a staple.

[@plant-based-carnist]

Lentil is staple in areas where it is commonly eaten like India. It is not staple in most places though.

[@kevinvest9693]

It's to bad the world is only 6000 years old

[@samanthaweatherly1260]

I want to see some of these roads turned into small community farms and nature rest spots. So more people can be cultured on plants and nature. Why ship so much food everywhere when we can grow in batches around the community.

[@standingbear998]

yet corn [maze] was known in asia and india before columbus. domestication and origin are not the same thing. all of these originated in the Americas.

[@shirleytrusler3208]

The E is a pain the nether regions!

[@jimmyhvy2277]

I Eat Meat Eggs Fish Cheese yogurt .

[@bleh329]

The music really doesn’t match the vibe of the video.

[@matthewgilmore4307]

The first reported import in the New World of what is thought to be Carolina Gold occurred in 1685, when a slave ship from Madagascar unloaded a cargo of rice in Charleston, South Carolina.

[@user-vf6nn6hx9x]

Carolina Gold derived from African species of rice

[@ntard]

Spongebob

[@tiyoneleigh1446]

Taino not Tyno

[@smallman9787]

AI generated

[@sususegar]

The repeated theme of European resistance towards new found food source was simple down to 2 simple facts: 1) Their bodies were generally not used to digesting and processing them. But as history has clearly shown, like the potato - with openness and persistence, it could easily be manipulated via cultivation to be safely edible. 2) Agricultural moguls/business owners weaponised the fact above to resist market change that could potentially jeopardise their source of income.

[@LauraFunFunFloweries]

Subscribed to be human 🎉

[@vincenthickey8622]

Please do the taro root plant alongside this video.

[@vincenthickey8622]

Did the taro come from south america to oceania or the other way?

[@elinope4745]

For a very long time, my ancestors were carnivores, such a long time that it shaped their brains and their teeth. Also there was a significant period where goat milk was a staple and this was for so long that I am now part of a minority of people who can digest milk fine even as adults. It is likely that the staple of my ancestors for the longest period, so the most important overall staple food, was mammoths. All of these grains weren't staples until after the advent of agriculture, and human nutrition has been terrible since then.

[@matthewgilmore4307]

why do we care about maize first?

[@Shay45]

Because it is the most eaten food (or ingredient) in the Americas (North, Central, & South) They even had a religion around it in the early Americas. 🌽

[@whosaidthat4299]

High fructose corn syrup is in everything, we worship it.

[@OHH2004]

Sorghum is originated horn of Africa particularly Somali territory

[@GetToTheFarm]

AAAAYYYYY EYYYEEEE

[@OGMTANK]

TIL casabe, Casava bread name, is from Cuba

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

Transubstantiation is a Catholic belief

[@Urfavigbo]

The belief that the bread and wine becomes the body and blood of Christ is not only specific to the Catholics. 1. The orthodox believes this. 2. This was the belief of the early church. Hence, it's a Christian belief.

[@triumph.over.shipwreck]

Holy Cannibalism

[@goldwolf0606]

FK got milk… Got Rice?!?!🍚

[@tnekkc]

I just eat meat, fish, eggs, and cheese.

[@Xonod]

You forgot Taro.

[@benedicttv5058]

And banana