Policymakers in India have traditionally pushed for a cereal-heavy " vegetarian diet" on a meat-eating population as a way of providing the cheapest sources of food.
However, what people eat has changed over time. And some of today's common breakfast foods, such as cereal, are the result of very effective marketing.
I mean, it's kinda surprising how little variety the non-African food basket is with the big cereal crops, but weirdly, that innovation system is grossly underfunded.
In contrast, the most important cereal crops of eastern Asia and of the New World—rice and corn, respectively—had a lower protein content that posed significant nutritional problems.