Food comes from two main sources: plants and animals. Plants provide foods like grains, cereals, vegetables, and fruits. Their edible parts include leaves, seeds, and fruits. Animals are a source of milk, meat, and eggs. Bees collect nectar from flowers and convert it into honey to store in their hives. Animals are classified based on their diets as herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, or scavengers.

1. Food: Where Does It Come From?
Presented By:
Parul Gandhi

2. What did you eat today?

3. What is Food?
➔ Anything which we eat to live is called food.
➔ For example: Roti , Bread, Butter, fruits, vegetables, pulses, vegetable
oil, butter, clarified butter, eggs, meat, chicken, fish, eggs, etc.
➔ Food is necessary for us because it provides matter for the growth of
our body and energy to do work.
➔ Food is a substance eaten by us to do work, grow, maintain our body
and remain healthy.

4. What are the food items made of?
➔ We eat different kinds of food at different times and on different days.
➔ A particular variety or preparation of food served as a part of a meal is
called dish.
➔ Any of the components or materials required to prepare a food dish are
called ingredients.
For Example: Boiled rice : rice + water
Chapati : Atta + water
Vegetable curry : salts + spices + oil + water

5. Where do this ingredients come from?

6. Sources of Food
Plant Sources Animal Sources
➔ Plant are the sources of food ingredients like grains, cereals, vegetables
and fruits.
➔ Animals provide us with milk, meat products and eggs.

7. Different edible parts of plants

12. Some plants have two or more edible parts.
For Example: Mustard Plant
1. Leaves are used as leafy vegetable.
2. Seeds are used to extract mustard oil.
Banana Plant
1. Fruit
2. Leaves as vegetables

13. Sprouting
When the seeds begin to grow by developing tiny roots, they are called sprouts.
After washing these sprouted seeds you can eat them . They can also be boiled.
Add some spices and get a tasty snack to eat.
How to make sprouts of moong or chana at home?
1. Take some seeds of moong or chana.
2. Put a small quantity of seeds in a container filled with water and leave it
aside for a day.
3. Next day drain the water completely and leave the seeds in the vessel.
4. Observe the seeds the next day, a white structure may have grown out of
seed which are known as sprouts.

15. Where Does Honey come from?

16. ➔ Bees collect nectar(sweet juices)
from flowers, convert it into
honey and store it in their hive.
➔ Flowers and their nectar may be
available only for a part of a
year.
➔ So, bees store this nectar for
their use through the year.
➔ When we find such a beehive,
we collect the food stored by the
bees as honey.

17. What do animals eat ?

18. Types of animals depending on food they eat
➔ Animals which eat only plants, plant parts or plant products are called
herbivores such as cow and deer.
➔ Animals which eat other animals are called carnivores such as tiger and lion.
➔ The animals which eat both plants and animals are called omnivores such as
human beings.
➔ The animals that eat flesh of dead animals are called scavengers. They help
in cleaning the environment. So they are called natural cleaning agent for
example; vulture and jackle.