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Is your pantry full of food you'll never eat? If you answered yes, then you're not a very frugal shopper. There are staples that every pantry needs, but it doesn't do any good if you don't use them. You also don't have to buy the most expensive items to fill your shelves. Take this quiz to see if you've what it takes to stock your pantry on a budget.Beans are full of fiber and brown rice is rich in minerals, but it's tomatoes that are chock full of disease-fighting antioxidants.
Bananas are great sources of potassium, but lycopene gives fruit its red color, so it's usually only found in fruits with a red tint.
Although tomatoes have nutrients that are found in both fruits and vegetables, they're technically classified as a fruit.
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Barley is 17 percent fiber, while brown rice contains a measly 4 percent. Whole wheat falls right in the middle at 12 percent.
Black beans need to be rehydrated by soaking them to shorten the cooking time, but lentils and split peas have softer shells and can go right on the stove.
While all three types of lentils can go in many different foods, brown is the best for soup because of its mushy cooked consistency.
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While chickweed and dandelions are also edible plants, a clover falls into the legume category because it sprouts from a bean.
While you can buy gluten-free versions of linguine and spaghetti, Asian rice noodles always gluten-free.
White beans and black beans are both mature legumes, but green beans are harvested before they have a chance to mature on the plant.
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This English breakfast staple uses navy beans, better known as baked beans in the United States.
Oats by themselves actually are free of gluten, but most of the time they're contaminated with wheat during growing or processing.
Elihu Yale was born in Boston and worked for the British East India Company, which had the monopoly on trade with India. They had all the good spices.
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It takes up to 250,000 saffron flowers to make a pound of the spice, because there are only three strands per flower. Pure vanilla is the second most expensive spice and cardamom is the third.
A physician created a paste made of peanuts for patients without teeth so they could get some protein in their bodies.
Even though the U.S. only has about 3 percent of the world's acreage of peanut crops, it accounts for 10 percent of what's sold because of higher yields per acre.
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Oats as we know them today came from the wild red oat, which was first found in Asia.
White vinegar is an excellent household cleaner with many uses, but it may change the color of wood.
Vinegar can be made from the sugar of any fruit, and pretty much anything else that contains sugar.
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Tuna tends to be high in mercury which can be harmful to a developing fetus.