NCERT solutions for Environmental Studies - Looking Around [English] Class 5 chapter 4 - Mangoes Round the Year [Latest edition]

How did Aman know that the potato sabzi had got spoilt?

Have you ever seen some food that has got spoilt? How did you know that it was spoiled?

Preeti told Nitu not to eat the potato sabzi. What would have happened if she had eaten it?

Look in your kitchen and write down names of food items that

Look at your friend’s list and discuss in the class.

Will your list be the same in all seasons? What would change?

When food gets spoilt in your house, what do you do with it?

Aman’s Biji went to the market to buy bread. The shop was very crowded. The shopkeeper picked up a packet of bread and gave it to Biji. She looked at it and returned it immediately.

Look at the picture of the bread packet here and guess why Biji returned it?

Aman’s Biji went to the market to buy bread. The shop was very crowded. The shopkeeper picked up a packet of bread and gave it to Biji. She looked at it and returned it immediately.

How did she find that the bread had got spoilt?

Look carefully at two-three packets of food items:

What can we know from what is written on the packet?

Look carefully at two-three packets of food items:

When you buy anything from the market, what do you look for on the packet?

The whole class can do this experiment together. Take a piece of bread or roti. Sprinkle a few drops of water on it, and put it in a box. Close the box. See the bread or roti every day until you find some changes on it.

Make this table on chart paper and put it up in the classroom. Fill up the chart every day after discussing the changes seen.

Find out the reason for these changes. From where did the fungus come on the bread?

Different kinds of food items spoil due to different reasons. Some foods spoil soon, some stay good for long. List some seasons and conditions in which food spoils quickly.

Given below are some food items and some simple methods by which these could be kept fresh for 1-2 days. Match the correct pairs:

Why was sugar and jaggery mixed into the mango pulp and dried in the sun?

Why did Appa first choose the most ripe mangoes to be used for making the mamidi tandra?

How did the brothers make the mamidi tandra? Write down step-by-step what they did for this.

What things are made in your house from ripe and unripe mangoes?

Make a list of all the different types of pickles that you know about, and share with your friends.

Is there any kind of pickle made in your house? What kind of pickle is it? Who makes it? From whom did they learn to make the pickle?

What all things are needed to make any one type of pickle in your house? How is the pickle made? Find out the recipe and write.

How are these things made in your house?

• Papad
• Chutney
• Badiyan
• Sauce

It is a two-day journey by train from Pune to Kolkata. If you were to go on this trip, what food items would you carry with you? How would you pack them? Make a list on the blackboard of all the packed food. What food would you eat first?

Glass jars and bottles are dried well in the sun before filling them with pickles. Why is this done? Do you remember what happened to the bread in the experiment?

To eat mangoes round the year we make different items like pickle, aam papad, chutney, chikky, etc. List some other food with which we make different things so that we can enjoy it throughout the year.