Lesson 7 – Food and Nutrition
(A) What’s the solution?
Sumedh and Modhura do not like green leafy vegetables. On the day their mother cooks leafy vegetables, they skip their meals.
Ans: Their mother should tell them about the benefits of leafy vegetables. They are good for our health. From green, leafy vegetables, we get fibre and vitamins, which are important for our health.
(B) Use your brain power !
1. Is a thalipeeth more nourishing than a bhakar made of only jowar or bajra flour?
Ans: Yes, thalipeeth is more nourishing than a bhakri made of only jowar or bajra flour because it is made from multigrain along with spices and vegetables.
2. If we add crushed peanuts or fresh coconut to a dish, will it make the dish more nourishing?
Ans: Yes, because peanuts are a good source of vitamin E and also contain protein. And fresh coconut is full of minerals. So adding crushed peanuts or fresh coconut to a dish makes it more nourishing and also very tasty.
3. Why do we squeeze lemon juice on rice and dal?
Ans: We squeeze lemon juice on rice and dal so that the rice and dal taste good. It is also beneficial for ourselves to consume lemon juice because it contains vitamin C.
4. Which crop growing in a field contains the most sugar?
Ans: Sugarcane contains the most sugar.
(C) Find out.
Find out how dahi is made from milk, or, how moth beams (mark) are sprouted. Try to do it yourself. Write the steps you followed and tell others in your class about what you did
Ans: Dahi is generally prepared from milk. The process of making dahi from milk is actually simple. It requires the following steps:
(i) First, the milk is heated to a boil for a few minutes. In this process, the extra water present in the milk gets evaporated, and the milk gets thickened a bit.
(ii) Then, the milk is allowed to cool to room temperature.
(iii) Then one spoon of dahi is added to the milk and mixed very well.
(iv) Then, it is kept overnight so that the entire milk is converted into curd.
(D) Draw pictures.
Draw pictures of those fruits that we eat along with their skins.
Ans:
(i) Grapes
(ii) Apple
(iii) Cherry
(iv) Strawberry
(v) Pear
(vi) Guava
(E) Make a list.
Make a list of those fruits which we cannot eat along with their skins.
Ans:
(i) Orange
(ii) Pomegranate
(iii) Banana
(iv) Mango
(v) Jackfruit
(F) Fill in the blanks.
1. Fruits taste sweet because they contain ________.
Ans: fructose
2. Rice, wheat, jowar, bajra are our ________ foods.
Ans: staple
3. The tiny peaks on our tongue are called ________ ________.
Ans: taste buds.
(G) Give reasons.
1. We must take certain precautions while cooking food.
Ans: While preparing food items, some of the constituents in the foodstuffs can get destroyed. We must take the following precautions to avoid that:
(i) When cooking food, add only as much water as is necessary.
(ii) Use a pressure cooker or cover the food with a lid while cooking it.
(iii) Use whole-grain flour without sifting.
2. Our body must be healthy.
Ans: If our body is to work properly, it must remain healthy. We must include all the food constituents in our diet.
3. Just because we like them, we must not eat the same dishes all the time.
Ans: We eat the dish we like again and again. But the food constituents that meet the different needs of our body are present in all our foodstuffs in varying quantities. That is why we must not eat the same dishes all the time just because we like them.
(H) Answer in brief.
1. What new thing did Monikatai tell about the tongue?
Ans: Monika Tai said that one tongue can tell us many tastes. There are tiny peaks on the tongue. They are called taste buds. These taste buds tell us about different tastes.
2. Fruits are sweet. Does that mean that they contain only sugar?
Ans: Fruits are sweet, as we know. But this doesn’t mean that they contain only sugar. It also contains organic acids, proteins, minerals, starch, etc. Fruits also give us energy.
3. Which food ingredients contain sour elements?
Ans: Lemon, tamarind, raw mango, tomato etc. are the food ingredients that contain sour elements.
(I) Match the following.
| A | B |
|---|---|
milk | sugar |
sesame | flour |
jowar | oil |
chikoo | butter |
Ans:
| A | B |
|---|---|
milk | butter |
sesame | oil |
jowar | flour |
chikoo | sugar |