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Class 4 The World Around Us — Food for health

Sort everyday foods into the three groups the chapter uses, work out how much of each belongs on a plate, and match the six tastes to the things that carry them.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.A balanced plate gives the three food groups different amounts of room. Tap the part where the protective foods — the fruits and vegetables — belong.

    Write the number of the part.

    123

  2. 2.Why does the chapter say we need to eat a variety of foods?

    • a) Because no single food holds the whole range of nutrients a body needs
    • b) Because the body can use just a little of each food
    • c) Because eating the same food twice makes it taste worse
    • d) Because a variety costs less than one expensive food

  3. 3.Sort each food into the group the chapter puts it in.

    Groups: Gives energy · Builds the body · Protects from disease

    • Rice
    • Carrot
    • Milk
    • Banana
    • Ghee
    • Spinach
    • Orange
    • Eggs
    • Peanuts

  4. 4.Match each taste to the ingredient the chapter's table gives for it.

    • Sweet
    • Sour
    • Pungent
    • Bitter
    • Astringent
    • Neem
    • Jaggery
    • Tamarind
    • Raw mango
    • Green chilli

  5. 5.Sort these by whether the chapter treats them as cooked or as eaten just as they are.

    Groups: Cooked before eating · Eaten without cooking

    • Fruit chaat
    • Kheer
    • Vegetable salad
    • Idli
    • Samosa

  6. 6.Ugadi Pachadi is a traditional food of which three states?

    • a) Gujarat, Rajasthan and Punjab
    • b) Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Goa
    • c) Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand
    • d) Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telengana

  7. 7.The cooking-methods table is filled in for one dish: idiyappam. Which method of cooking does it give for it?

  8. 8.Carrot, orange, lemon, papaya, spinach and amla are grouped together in the chapter. What does it say they do?

    • a) Build our muscles and make us strong
    • b) Help us fight against and protect us from diseases
    • c) Give us energy for running and playing
    • d) Keep water in the body on a hot day

Answer key — Class 4 The World Around Us — Food for health

  1. 1. 1 — The largest part
  2. 2. a) Because no single food holds the whole range of nutrients a body needs
  3. 3. Rice → Gives energy; Banana → Gives energy; Ghee → Gives energy; Milk → Builds the body; Eggs → Builds the body; Peanuts → Builds the body; Carrot → Protects from disease; Orange → Protects from disease; Spinach → Protects from disease
  4. 4. Sweet → Jaggery; Sour → Tamarind; Pungent → Green chilli; Bitter → Neem; Astringent → Raw mango
  5. 5. Idli → Cooked before eating; Kheer → Cooked before eating; Samosa → Cooked before eating; Fruit chaat → Eaten without cooking; Vegetable salad → Eaten without cooking
  6. 6. d) Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telengana
  7. 7.
    • steaming
    • steam
    • steamed
  8. 8. b) Help us fight against and protect us from diseases