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What is food?
Solution
- Food is one of the basic needs of life. Food provides energy and it contains essential nutrients to keep our body healthy.
- It is usually made by cooking plants and animals.
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Suggest any three ways you can think of to avoid wastage of food.
Fill up the blank with the words given:
The ______ that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes, and goats is an animal product.
______, ______ are examples of raw food.
______, ______ are examples of cooked food.
Tabulate the given food items according to the cooking methods.
| Rice | Poori | Murukku | Pop-corn | Idli | Milk |
| Fish | Puttu | Dhal | Idiyappam | Idiyappam |
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Explain the different types of food.
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B | ||
| 1. | Calcium | a. | Muscular fatigue |
| 2. | Sodium | b. | Anaemia |
| 3. | Potassium | c. | Osteoporosis |
| 4. | Iron | d. | Goitre |
| 5. | Iodine | e. | Muscular cramps |
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Why do organisms need food? Write two reasons.
Fill in the blanks from the list of words given below.
| carbohydrate | fat | protein | starch | sugar | Vitamin A | Vitamin C | roughage | balanced diet | obesity | goitre |
- Egg yolk is rich in ______ and egg albumin is rich in ______.
- Deficiency diseases can be prevented by taking a ______.
- Eating too much of fat rich foods may lead to a condition called ______.
- The component of food that does not provide any nutrient to our body and yet is essential in our food is ______.
- The vitamin that gets easily destroyed by heating during cooking is ______.
Read the items of food listed below. Classify them into carbohydrate rich, protein rich and fat rich foods and fill them in the given table.
Moong dal, fish, mustard oil, sweet potato, milk, rice, egg, beans, butter, butter milk (chhachh), cottage cheese (paneer), peas, maize, white bread.
| Carbohydrate Rich Food Item (A) | Protein Rich Food Item (B) | Fat Rich Food Item (C) |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
| ______ | ______ | ______ |
Solve the cross-word puzzle given as figure from the dues given below.
Across
- Lack of nutrients in our diet over a long period causes these diseases (10)
- Rice and potato are rich in this type of carbohydrate (6)
- Deficiency disease in bones making it become soft and bent (7)
- The diet that provides all the nutrients that our body needs, in right quantities, along with adequate amount of roughage and water (8, 4)
- Deficiency disease with bleeding gums (6)
- Disease caused due to deficiency of iodine (6)
Down - Starch and sugar in our food are rich in this type of energy giving nutrient (13)
- The term given to the useful components of food (9)
- The disease caused by deficiency of iron in diet (7)
- Green leafy vegetables, liver and apples are rich in this mineral (4)
- Deficiency disease caused due to lack of vitamin B in the diet (8)
There are ______ essential amino acids required by the human body through the diet.
World Health Day is celebrated on ______.
In a food pyramid, fat and oil are placed at the bottom.
