Plants provide many essential food sources from different parts like roots, stems, leaves, seeds, and fruits. Roots like carrot and yam, stems like sugarcane and banana, leaves like amaranthus and drumstick, seeds like paddy and wheat, and fruits like pumpkin and cucumber are some of the foods obtained from various plant parts that are important in human diets. The edible portion varies between plant species.

1. UNIT – 1
Know the Plant World Closely
● What are the food materials you can
observe in the pictures?
● From where do we get them?
● From which part of the plants we get
them?

2. ● We use different parts of the plants
like root, stem, leaf, seed, fruits etc.
for food.
● The edible part in each plant is
different.
ROOT STEM LEAF SEED FRUIT FLOWER
Tapioca Sugar
cane
Amaranthu
s
Paddy Pumpkin Cauliflowe
r
Carrot Yam Colocasia
leaf
Wheat Cucumber Drumstick
Beetroot potato Drumstick
leaf
Jower Ash Gourd Banana
flower
Sweet
potato
colocasia Coriander
leaf
Barley Been Pumpkin
flower
Radish Banana
stem
pumpkin Oats Snake
Gourd
Rose
flower