World Bank raises concern over too much emphasis on rice

By Tita C. Valderama

Dec 26, 2022 12:05 am

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TO most Filipinos, rice is life. We have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Between regular meals, many of us still love rice-based delicacies such as bibingka, puto bumbong, biko and binignit (ginataang bilo-bilo).

We tend to eat more rice when it is paired with dishes like adobo, kare-kare, sinigang and caldereta. We feel weak and easily agitated when we don't consume rice. We can't live without rice.

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