The document defines 26 different foods from A to Z, providing 1-2 sentences describing each food. It discusses foods like apples, beans, corn, dumplings, eggs, fish, grapes, hamburgers, icing, jam, kiwi, lettuce, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, papayas, quinces, rambutans, star fruit, tomatoes, ugli fruit, voavangos, watermelon, xigua, yellow watermelon, and zucchini. For each food it mentions where it comes from, what it looks like, and other brief defining details.

1. ABC’s of Food 

2. Letter “A” Apple : a rounded fruit with red, yellow or green skin When my mom went to the grocery store, the apples were on sale . Can be a bright red, yellow or green Grows on trees Can be bought at the grocery store

3. Letter “B” Beans : a seed or pod of any various erect or a climbing leguminous plants When I went to go and eat on the buffet they have beans . Can be brown, black or green Farmers grow it Found at a lot of restaurants

4. Letter “C” Corn : the seed of a cereal grass & especially of the important crop My grandpa owns a farm and him and his sons plant/grow corn . Is yellow Grown in fields from farmers It is a crop

5. Letter “D” Dumplings : a small mass of dough cooked by boiling or steaming Every time we go to Crackle Barrel Anna gets dumplings . You can eat them at Crackle Barrel Cooked balls of dough Dumplings can be sweet or spicy

6. Letter “E” Eggs : the hard shelled reproductive body produced by a bird When you bake a cake you have to use eggs . They contain protein, minerals and vitamins except vitamin C China produces most of the eggs A fresh egg will sink and a stale one will float

7. Letter “F” Fish : an aquatic animal usually used in combination When you go to a seafood restaurant, most likely there is going to be fish . You will find it on most menus at the beach There are various types of fish you can eat They have been on earth more than 450 million years

8. Letter “G” Grape :green or purple berry with sweet juicy flesh that grows in bunches on a vine, eaten fresh or used to make wine or juice When you go to the grocery store there are red and green grapes . They can be green or red/purple grapes You can buy them at the grocery store One grape vine can grow to be 50 feet long

9. Letter “H” Hamburger : a ground beef ;a cooked patty When I go to Pats in Benson I get a hamburger . The world hamburger probably existed by the end of the middle ages You can buy hamburgers most likely at any restaurant. Hamburgers today are served with pickles and lettuce etc.

10. Letter “I” Icing : a sweet glace made of sugar, butter, water & eggs When my mom bakes a cake she puts icing on it . You put them on cakes and cupcakes It is really ,really sweet It can be different colors

11. Letter “j” jam : a spread made by boiling fruit When I got to Crackle Barrel I see a lot of people with jam . It is very sticky They are made by cooking whole fruit with sugar It contains a whole cup of fruit and rest sugar

12. Letter “K” Kiwi : a green fruit with a fuzzy outside I don’t like to eat kiwi because of the fuzzy outside . There are more than 400 different varieties of kiwi fruit. Kiwi can be small or medium in size The shell of the skin can be eaten or peeled

13. Letter “L” Lettuce : a common garden vegetable of the daisy family When I go out to eat my mom always gets a salad which has lettuce in it . Americans eat about 30 lbs of lettuce every year There are 4 different types of lettuce The lettuce we see today actually started out as weed

14. Letter “M” Mango : a smooth rind, sweet juicy flesh ; a flat one seeded stone To eat the mango you have to cut it with a Sharpe knife. Mangos are about 6 in long It has a thick greenish or yellowish skin a mango tree can grow up to be ninety feet long

15. Letter “N” Nectarine : a variety of peach having a smooth down less skin Nectarine almost tastes like peaches because it has a variety of peaches in it. The nectarine tree produces peaches A nectarine is almost identical to a peach It has been known for 2,000 years

16. Letter “O” Orange : reddish yellow bitter or sweet edible citrus fruit Orange s are used in orange juice that some people may drink in the morning. In Jamaica people clean their floors with a half orange Spain has over 35,000,000 orange trees they grow on evergreen trees which are about 30 ft tall

17. Letter “P” Papaya : a large yellow melon like fruit of a American shrub In the middle of a papaya there are tons of seeds . There are two types of papayas Papayas like to be warm form the sunshine The papaya is the fruit of the Carica Papaya tree

18. Letter “Q” Quince : the fruit such as a tree Quince is almost like an apple it grows off a tree and almost looks like a yellow apple . The fruit is to small and to hard to be of commercial value The quince is a relative value of the apple and the pear Over 4,000 years the trees have grown in Asia

19. Letter “R” Rambutan : the bright red oval fruit An unpeeled rambutan looks like a grape but just a different color. In some countries the rambutan is common in gardens It is eaten fresh Rambutan is most commonly grown in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia

20. Letter “S” Star fruit : fruit in the shape of a star that tastes like kiwi In our cafeteria at school they serve star fruit with certain meals. It is 6 inches long They are produced by the carambola tree It has waxy skin

21. Letter “T” Tomato : red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable There are tomatoes in ketchup. It’s the worlds most popular fruit There are more than 16 million tons of tomatoes grown each year Tomatoes are rich in vitamin A and C

22. Letter “U” Ugli : a large sweet variety of tangelo having yellow skin Ugli fruit almost looks like a rotten orange . Ugli is a Jamaican fruit It is a size of a smallish grapefruit but is sweeter The American pronunciation is “ugly”

23. Letter “V” Voavango : a round fruit that is green with white dots and turns brown when fully ripe Voavango is a Spanish tamarind fruit. It is about 1.5 to 2 in big It is a Spanish tamarind It is a very rare fruit

24. Letter “W” Watermelon : having a hard green rind & sweet watery pink or reddish flesh During the summer time my grandma brings home watermelon . Watermelon is actually a vegetable not a fruit Over 1,200 varieties of watermelons are grown Watermelon became apart of the dictionary in 1615

25. Letter “X” Xigua : looks like a watermelon only shorter in size When you plant watermelons in a garden they almost look like xigua It is found in Africa It is a small fruit The fruit is favorite with the birds

26. Letter “Y” Yellow watermelon : same as watermelon just a different color which is yellow Yellow watermelon looks just like regular watermelon but on the inside instead of it being pink it is yellow . It is not sold at grocery stores It is very rare It is commonly used in salads

27. Letter “Z” Zucchini : a variety of squash having an elongated shape & smooth skin Zucchini is more popular in Italy verse North America . Strange explorers are the ones who bring back zucchini They contain useful amounts of folate The skin color can be black , dark green and pale green