Reay Tannahill. Food in History in the "Imperial Rome" chapter reports:
The basic diet of the Roman poor consisted of grain-pastes or coarse bread bristling with chaff, and a polenta-like porridge made from millet.
The source is Carcopino, Jerome. Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire (London, 1941; rpt 1967)
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