as
uired to prepare food are known
materials.
ingredients.
to make different kinds of food we need
List out some food items
you
like to
and
Fifferent materials. These materials which
try to find out what ingredients
are used to prepare them (Table-2).
Table 2 - Ingredients of some food items.
S.No. Food items you like
Required ingredients
eat
Payasam
2
Chicken curry
3.
Pallikaram
Then you purchase packed food,
milk, meat from animals. Is th
scuits or any cool drink, you will find
other source you can think of
Leir ingredients written on their ingredients have been listed be
ckets. Have you ever thought from
out the source of each ingre
here these ingredients come? Yes, it
is a plant mark (P) or an ani
be easy for you to say that we get something else (O) (Table-
Answers
Answer:
Table 1.2 Food items and their ingredients
Food ItemIngredients1. Roti/chapatiAtta, water2. DalPulses, water, salt,oil/ ghee, spices3.
What do we find? Do we find some ingredients common for different food items? Discuss in class. So, where do these ingredients come from?
1.2 FOOD MATERIALS AND SOURCES
It may be easy for us to guess the sources of some of the ingredients that we listed in Table 1.2. Fruits and vegetables, for instance. Where do they come from? Plants, of course! What are the sources of rice or wheat? You may have seen paddy or wheat fields with rows and rows of plants, which give us these grains.
And then, there are food items like milk, eggs, meat, chicken, fish, prawns, beef, pork and such others, which come from animals.
Explanation:
Table 1.4 Plant parts as food
Food item with plant as the major sourceIngredients/sourcePlant part which gives us the ingredient1. Brinjal curryBrinjalFruitChilli as spice (any other)FruitOil from groundnut, mustard, soybean, any other plant