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FOOD : WHERE DOES IT COME FROM ?


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CONTENTS
• Variety of food
• Food materials and sources
• Plant parts as food
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Grains: cereals and pulses
• Oils
• Spices
• Beverages
• Sugar
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What is food ?
Nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants
absorb, in order to maintain life and growth.
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Think and Answer


Q. What are the three meals we take daily?

Q. Write any 3 milk products you take daily

Q. From where does baby plant get food?

Q. Why do we cook food? Does food lose its nutritional value when they are cooked?
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Why do we need food??

Organisms need food (nutrients) to


▪ Obtain energy.
▪ Obtain materials for growth.
▪ Obtain materials for repair of
damaged body parts.
▪ Carry out life processes.
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Variety of Food
• Food habits differ according to the place a person lives in different seasons.
• Food is thus available in different varieties.
• For example: chapatis are famous in North India while rice is famous in South India.
• Some food items can be eaten raw such as fruits and vegetables while some are prepared by
mixing different food items such as dosa, idli, cakes etc.
• So, what do we call different food items that makes our food tasty??
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Ingredients
Any substances or materials that are required to produce a dish or different food items that
make up a delicious dish are called Ingredients.
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Types of Ingredients
Natural Ingredients Artificial Ingredients
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Sources of Food Materials (Ingredients)


Ingredients or food materials can be obtained from plant sources and animal sources.

Plant Sources: Plants are the sources of Animal Sources: Animals are the another
food ingredients like grains, cereals, source which provide us with milk, meat
vegetables and fruits. products and eggs.
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Think and Answer: poll question

Q1) Which of these ingredients is not obtained from plants or animals?


a) Salt b) Honey c) Wheat d) Milk

Q2) Milk, curd, paneer and ghee are all


a) Plant products b) Vegetables c) Animal products

Q3) There is a lot of variation in food eaten in different regions of India.


a) True b) False
Sources of Food: Plant Sources
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Plants are one source of our food and we consume


almost all parts of the plants such as leaves, stems,
roots, fruits, and seeds that are considered to be
edible (eatable) parts.

Some plants have two or more edible parts.


For example: seeds of mustard plants give us oil
and the leaves are used as a vegetable.

Fruits
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Plant Sources…contd
The different sources of plants are:
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Grains
• Cereals
• Pulses
• Oils
• Spices
• Beverages
• Sugar
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Different Sources of Plants: Fruits

Fruits: We get edible fruits from many plants. Fruits are rich in minerals and vitamins.
For Example:
• Mangoes, apples and bananas are fleshy fruits.
• Walnuts and almonds are dry fruits.
• Oranges, lemons and amla are citrus fruits.

Anything that has seeds is the ‘fruit’ of the plant but may not necessarily be taken raw.
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Different Sources of Plants: Vegetables


Parts of plants such as roots, stems, leaves flowers and seeds are eaten as food.

• We eat plant roots in the form of carrot, turnip, radish and beetroot.
• We eat stems of some plants such as sugarcane, asparagus, sweet potato. We also eat underground
stem in the form of ginger, potato and onion.
• Leaves of plants like spinach, lettuce, cabbage, coriander, mint, basil are used as leafy vegetables.
• Flowers of certain plants like cauliflower, banana flower, pumpkin flower and broccoli are used as
vegetables.
• Corn, peas are seeds.
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Different Sources of Plants: Grains


Grains are the seeds of the plants which store food and can be used after proper treatment.
Types of grains
• Cereals:
• Pulses:
When the seeds begin to grow (germinate), it is called as Sprouts. They are rich in proteins,
carbohydrates and vitamins.
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Grains: Cereals and Pulses


Cereals: are rich sources of carbohydrates obtained from
food crops with monocot seeds. Eg: Wheat, rice, and
maize.

Pulses: They are a rich source of proteins and are


obtained from seeds of leguminous plants. For example:
Kidney beans (rajma), pigeon pea (arhar), black gram
(urad), grams (chana), peas etc.
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Different Sources of Plants: Oils


Most of the oils are obtained by crushing the seeds or the dried fruits of the plants.
Example : coconut , mustard , sunflower , soybean and olive
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Different Sources of Plants: Spices


They have no food value and are used for adding flavor to the food. They are in the form of powders
or seeds that make our food tasty.
Example : red chillies , turmeric , cumin seeds , mustard seeds , cloves and coriander etc.
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Different Sources of Plants: Beverages


Beverages are the drinks other than water.
Tea is obtained from the leaves of the tea plant and coffee from the beans of the coffee plant.
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Different Sources of Plants: Sugar


There are two major sugar crops: beetroot (sugar beet) and sugarcane.
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Think and Answer: Poll Questions


Q1) Given below is a list of edible plants:
(i) Banana (ii) Pumpkin (iii) Lady’s finger (iv) Brinjal
Which pair of plants have two or more edible parts?
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (iii) and (iv)
(d) (i) and (iv)

Q2) The edible part of flower used as a vegetable is


a) Rose b) Broccoli c) Tomato

Q3) Pulses are rich source of


a) Carbohydrates b) Fats c) Proteins
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Links:- Food: where does it come from

Plant and animal sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EJMm5FeQWE


Parts of plants as food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YPp4eMf6lQ
Food: where does it come from: https://youtu.be/ypg5uDGAmlw

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