This document discusses various methods of food preservation. It notes that cooked foods like curry, dough, milk, chapati, rice, raw meat and fish, and fruits and vegetables can spoil easily. Food spoils due to fungi, being past the expiration date, being kept at temperatures where microbes grow, and higher moisture content during rainy seasons. Common preservation methods mentioned include refrigeration, boiling and storing in cool places, refrigeration, storing in dry places, and using airtight containers. Additional methods covered are boiling, sweetening, salting, pickling, drying, canning, and pasteurization.

1. CLASS-V
EVS

2. Food that get spoiled
easily
 Cooked sabji (curry)
 Dough of flour
 Milk
 Chapati
 Rice
 Raw fish/ meat
 Fruits and
vegetables

3. How does food get spoilt?
Due to fungus.
After the expiry date of packed food.
Keeping cooked food at temperature in
which microbes grow.
During rainy season when moisture
content is more in air.

4. How are these food preserved in
your home ?
Vegetables/ fruit –
refrigerator
Milk-boiled & kept in
cool place.
Fish/meat refrigeration
Onion/garlic-dry place
Biscuits/namkeen-dry
& air tight container
Bread-dry packets

5. Some More Method of
Food Preservation
Boiling
Sweetening
Salting
Pickling
Drying
Canning
Pasteurization

6. Methods of Food
Preservation
 Drying
 Freezing
 Salting
 Boiling
 Pickling
 Making jam
 Canning
 Making badiya

8. Amm Papad
(Mamidi Tandra)
Pickle
Jam
Murabba
Chutney

9. Answer the following questions
 How do you come to know that a sabzi had
got spoilt?
 What will happen if you eat a spoiled sabzi?
 What does your mother do to preserve milk?
 When you buy something from the market
what do you look for in the packet?
 In which season food get spoiled soon?

11.  HIM SAGAR
* HAPUS
 RAHKAL BHOG
 DUSHERI
 MOHAN BHOG
 GOPAL BHOG
 LANGRA
 FAJLI

12. Activity Sheet-S
 Name the things
preserved by the given
method.
 Draw the picture of the
gadget used to
preserve food at your
home

13. 1. Find out food that can get spoilt in
•Two to three days
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•Can be kept for a week
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•Would not spoil in one month
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2. How your mother/grandmother make
certain fruits & vegetables available
to you through out the year ?

14. Find out various ways to
preserve this fruit as
RIPE RAW
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15.  Draw the symbol of
 FPO
 AGMARK
 ISI

16. What are the advantages
of preserving food items ?