Why Are Certain Foods Typical Breakfast Foods?

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What’s your favorite food to eat for breakfast? For most people, the answer is some combination of eggs, bacon, toast, and cereal. But why do we typically consider these foods breakfast foods? 

When you think about it, it’s clear that you can eat virtually any food in the world and fill up for breakfast, and yet we tend to repeat several breakfast options again and again, not even thinking about introducing something else. This, of course, depends on where you live and is different in different cultures.

Western breakfast staples like eggs and sausage date back to Ancient Rome, though people’s habits were very different back then. Over time, we developed the need for a nutritious and fast breakfast because our lives kept getting busier and busier.

Cereal became a breakfast staple thanks to the food industry that promoted them as healthy for a long time. If you’re following food and health trends, then you know that cereal and some other well-known breakfast items (like orange juice) are decreasing in popularity and being replaced with different things, like porridge and plant-based milk.