Plain Carb Base Food Map

For people who feel safest with rice, bread, pasta, potatoes, noodles, tortillas, or other neutral foundations.

Examples:

• white rice
• plain pasta
• bread
• naan
• tortillas
• potatoes
• noodles
• couscous

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Additional Notes

Expanded International Safe Food List

For people who feel safest with:
neutrality.
starch.
foundational foods.
modular eating.
plainness as infrastructure.

East Asia

• white rice
• sushi rice
• udon
• soba
• rice noodles
• steamed bao buns
• plain congee
• rice cakes

South Asia

• naan
• roti
• chapati
• paratha
• dosa
• idli
• basmati rice
• poha flattened rice

Africa

• injera
• fufu
• ugali
• jollof rice
• coconut rice
• cassava
• boiled yam
• rice dishes across West Africa

Middle East + Mediterranean

• pita
• couscous
• flatbread
• lavash
• saffron rice
• vermicelli rice
• plain hummus with bread
• bulgur

Europe

• spaetzle
• buttered noodles
• boiled potatoes
• rye bread
• sourdough
• pierogi dough
• pasta
• dumplings

Latin America

• arepas
• tortillas
• arroz blanco
• yuca
• tamales
• pan dulce breads
• empanada dough
• bolillo bread

Caribbean

• coco bread
• rice and peas
• fried dumplings
• roti
• bammy cassava bread

Related Pages

• Safe Food Bridge Directory
• Naan: Sensory Safety Guide
• Couscous: Sensory Safety Guide
• Udon: Sensory Safety Guide
• Injera: Sensory Safety Guide
• Cassava: Sensory Safety Guide
• Lavash: Sensory Safety Guide
• Spaetzle: Sensory Safety Guide
• Arepas: Sensory Safety Guide
• If You Like Buttered Noodles, Try These Foods