Read about food
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What is Food?
- Food is what we eat to get energy and stay healthy.
- It helps us grow, stay strong, and fight diseases.
Types of Food
- Fruits and Vegetables – Provide vitamins and minerals.
- Grains (Rice, Bread, Pasta) – Give energy.
- Proteins (Meat, Eggs, Beans, Nuts) – Help in growth and muscle building.
- Dairy (Milk, Cheese, Yogurt) – Make bones strong.
- Fats and Sweets – Should be eaten in small amounts.
Why Do We Need Food?
- Gives us energy to play, study, and work.
- Helps our body grow and repair itself.
- Keeps our immune system strong to fight sickness.
Healthy vs. Unhealthy Food
- Healthy Food: Fruits, vegetables, nuts, milk, fish.
- Unhealthy Food: Chips, soda, candy, too much fast food.
Eating a Balanced Diet
- Eat a variety of foods from different groups.
- Drink plenty of water.
- Avoid too much sugar and oily food.
Food Sources
- Plants: Fruits, vegetables, grains.
- Animals: Milk, eggs, meat.
Learn with an example
🔥Read the text about
lollipops.
- Long ago, people mixed fruit, nuts and honey and made them into snacks on sticks. The honey preserved the fruit and nuts, keeping them fresh for weeks. This mixture created something delicious that we now call the lollipop. The sweet got its name in England during the 1600s when people started calling it a lolly pop. Language experts say that lolly pop means ‘tongue slap’! An American sweetmaker changed the name to lollipop in 1931.
- People used to make lollipops by pressing sticks into the sweets by hand. Then someone at a sweet company made a machine that could push sticks into the sweets. After that, the sweet company could make 125 lollipops a minute. Lollipop machines have gotten faster over the years. Today, some companies make 3,000,000 lollipops every day!
🔥Based on the text, what foods were mixed with honey for the first lollipops?
- butter and sugar
- oil and berries
- nuts and fruit
Look at the text in bold below. It tells you what foods were mixed with honey for the first lollipops.
Long ago, people mixed fruit, nuts and honey and made them into snacks on sticks. The honey preserved the fruit and nuts, keeping them fresh for weeks. This mixture created something delicious that we now call the lollipop.
🔥Read the text about carrot
cake.
- Mixing vegetables and dessert might sound strange. But carrot cake shows how this combination can really work! Bakers started adding carrots to cakes hundreds of years ago when sugar cost a lot of money. As one of the sweetest vegetables, carrots helped sweeten baked goods. In England during World War II, it was hard to get sugar. So, English bakers started making even more carrot cake.
- The carrot cake we eat today is still sweet and usually has cream cheese icing. But carrots aren’t the only vegetable that people add to baked goods. Clever bakers make everything from beetroot brownies to sweet potato cookies! Only time will tell if these treats will be as well loved as the carrot cake.
🔥 Why did people add carrots to cake hundreds of years ago?
- It cost a lot of money to buy sugar.
- It made the cakes healthy.
- They didn’t want their cakes to be sweet.
Look at the text in bold below. It tells you why people added carrots to cake hundreds of years ago.
Mixing vegetables and dessert might sound strange. But carrot cake shows how this combination can really work! Bakers started adding carrots to cakes hundreds of years ago when sugar cost a lot of money. As one of the sweetest vegetables, carrots helped sweeten baked goods. In England during World War II, it was hard to get sugar. So, English bakers started making even more carrot cake.
🔥Read the text about
artichokes.
- The artichoke might be one of the strangest-looking foods we eat. It looks like a big, green pine cone. Its outside is made of hard petals and sharp thorns. But the artichoke is really a large flower bud with many edible parts. Its centre is soft and delicious.
- To eat an artichoke, cooks must prepare it. First, they usually clip off the prickly tops from the petals. Then, they steam the artichoke to make it softer. Once the artichoke is soft, each petal can be tugged out. People usually scrape the soft insides out from the bottom of the petal using their teeth. Then the rest of the thick petal is tossed out.
- An artichoke has many rows of petals, but the prize is in the middle of the artichoke. The tender centre is known as the heart of the artichoke. Many say the nutty-tasting heart is the most delicious part!
🔥 Based on the text, what is the outside of an artichoke like?
- It is layered with soft, colourful petals.
- It is sticky and strong.
- It is pointy and hard.
Look at the text in bold below. It tells you what the outside of an artichoke is like.
The artichoke might be one of the strangest-looking foods we eat. It looks like a big, green pine cone. Its outside is made of hard petals and sharp thorns. But the artichoke is really a large flower bud with many edible parts. Its centre is soft and delicious.
let’s practice!
Read the text about pickles.
When you think about pickles, you probably imagine the long green gherkins that come in a jar. These are the most common pickles, the pickled cucumber. But there are many other pickles in the world. In fact, all kinds of food can be pickled. They just need to be mixed with a salty sauce or vinegar and placed in a jar.
In Russia, many people pickle tomatoes, and in Poland people pickle fish. In the Middle East, meals often come with pickled lemons or peppers. Even sweet fruits can be pickled. For example, some cooks pickle strawberries and cherries.
Pickling started as a way to make foods last longer. Pickled foods could be stored and eaten in winter when fruits and vegetables were not available. They could also be taken on long journeys. Today, people still sometimes pickle food to save it. But they also pickle food just for the satisfying sour taste.
