In this chapter we have discussed about food and it's variety all over the India also about the source of our food and differentiated animals on the basis of what they eat.

1. FOOD:
WHERE
DOES IT
COME
FROM?

2. YOUR FAVORITE FOOD

3. FOOD VARIETY

4. WHAT IS INGREDIENTS ?
-Anything needed to prepare a dish
• For example- Rice cooked at home, we take raw rice and boil it in water. These two material
rice and water needed for cooked rice we eat with curry.
• Preparation of sambhar.
Vegetables Spices Sambhar

5. FOOD MATERIALS AND
SOURCES
•Some of the ingredients that we use i.e. fruits
and vegetables, where do they come from?
Plants, of course!
•Sources of wheat and rice-paddy of wheat fields
(rows of plants), which gives us these grains.

6. PLANT SOURCE
Pulses Dry Fruits
Vegetables Cereals Fruits

7. ANIMAL SOURCE
Milk and it’s product
(milk, butter, curd, cheese,
cottage cheese, condensed milk,
ghee etc.)
Animal and it’s product
(eggs, fish, meat etc.)

8. QUESTION FOR YOU
Name some other animals who provides us milk.
1. Goat
2. Camel
3. Sheep
4. Buffalo
5. Yak

9. PLANT PARTS AND ANIMAL
PRODUCTS AS FOOD
• Plants are one source of our food.
• We eat many leafy vegetables.
• We eat fruits of plants, sometimes roots, sometimes
stems and even flower.
• Some plants have two or more edible (eatable) parts.
• Example-Seeds of mustard plants give us oil and the
leaves are used as a vegetable.

10. ACTIVITY
• Take dry seeds of
Moong or Chana.
• Fill with water
and leave this
aside for a day.
• Next day drain
the water
completely and
leave the seeds
in the bowl.
• Wrap them with
a piece of wet
cloth and set
aside.
• A small white
structure may
have grown out
of the seeds,
the seeds have
sprouted.
• Now you can
eat this.

11. WHERE HONEY COMES FROM, OR HOW IT
IS PRODUCED ?
Bees collect nectar
from flower.
Convert it into
honey.
Store it in their hive.
 Flowers and their nectar may be available only for apart of the year. So, bees store
this nectar for their use all through the year.
 We collect the food stored by the bees as honey.

12. WHAT DO ANIMALS EAT ?
• Herbivores- animals which eat only plants or plant products.

13. CARNIVORES
• Carnivores- animals which eat other animals.

14. OMNIVORES
• Omnivores- animals which eat both plants and animals.

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