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In Bangladesh the common foods are rice, fish & pulses. People also eat, wheat, potatoes & other seasonal vegetables, beef, mutton, chicken, eggs, bread & other bakery products & all sorts of local fruits. Among fishes shrimps & hilsa are exported abroad &, they are therefore expensive & rare. All these, we call common foods, because these are available in Bangladesh & people like them very much as well. We can find them around us. Most of our food items are nutritious. All fruits are also rich in food value. We like all these Bangladeshi foods because we are habituated to eat them. It’s a sense of nationalism, that prompts us to take indigenous items of food & fruits.

Rice is a kind of food. It’s obtained from paddy. Rice is a staple food of Bangladesh. It grows in plenty in Ceylon, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Japan and in many countries of the world. There are many kinds of rice. But the chief varieties Aus, Aman and Boro. But aman is superior in quality and grows in plenty in Bangladesh. The Aman is sown in  rainy season . It’s reaped in winter. The Aus grows on high land. It is sown in  summer . The Boro grows in marshy where water stands till the winter season. It's sown in winter & reaped in spring. At present a new variety of rice called IRRI is being cultivated. It grows fifty to sixty mounds per acre. Rice is of two kinds-Atap and Siddha. Various kinds of delicious foods are prepared from rice.