1 Food: Where does it come from?                                          09.08.
2020
What is food?
Food is a substance that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep them alive.
E.g., Rice, chapati, curry, fruits, vegetables, cheese, bread, milk, curd, butter, etc
Ingredients
The components or materials required to prepare a food item are called as ingredients.
Examples
Food Item/Dish       Ingredients
Boiled Rice          Rice, water
Roti                 Flour(Atta), water
Dal                  Pulses, water , spices, ghee/oil, salt
Halwa                Suji, sugar, water, ghee
Kheer                Rice, Milk, Sugar
Idli                 Rice, Urad dal, Water, salt
Source of Food material or Ingredients
The main sources of our food are plants and animals.
   1. Plants – We get rice, wheat, vegetables, fruits etc, from plants.
   2. Animals- We get milk, curd, ghee, honey, meat, egg, fish, honey etc, from animals.
Plant part that are eaten
Plants                                             Edible part
Carrot, Radish, Sweet potato, beetroot             Root
Potato, Onion, Ginger, Sugarcane                   Stem
All Cereal (Maize,rice,wheat) , Pulses,            Seed
Mustard, Sunflower
Spinach, Coriander, Mint, Cabbage                  Leaves
Cauliflower, broccoli                              Flowers
Mango, Banana, Pumpkin, Litchi, Brinjal,           Fruits
Chilli, Tomato
Sugar: We get sugar from sugarcane and beetroot.
Dairy Products: Products made from milk are called dairy product.
Example: Paneer, Cheese, Cream, Butter, Ghee, Curd
Sprouted Seeds/Sprouts
  1.   Soak seeds of moong or gram (chana) for 7-8 hours.
  2.   After 7-8 hours drain the water completely.
  3.   Now wrap these seeds in a piece of wet cloth and leave it overnight.
  4.   Next day we see a white structure coming out of the seeds.
       Now, these seeds are called sprouted seeds or simply sprout.
Nectar: - Nectar is a sweet liquid or juice produced by flowers.
Honey: - We get honey from bees.
Bees collect nectar (sweet juices) from flowers, convert it into honey and store it in their
hive.
Herbivores:
Animals which eat only plants are called herbivores.
Example- cows, buffalo, sheep, goat, deer etc
Carnivores:
Animals which eat only animals are called carnivores.
Example- tiger, lion, snake, vulture
Omnivores:
Animals which eat both plants as well as other animals are called omnivores.
Example- Human, dog, squirrel, crow, bear etc.