Questions and answers
1.) What is mean by ingredients?
Answer :- Ingredients are additives which increases taste of food.
2.) Can you name the some taste ?
Answer :- Yes, sweet, bitter, sour and spicy.
3.) Which ingredient provide sweet taste to food ?
Answer :- Sugar gives sweet taste to food.
4.) How will you make the syrup ?
Answer :- Syrup is made up of sugar and water.
5.) Do you eat rice ? If yes, do you eat it alone or with some mixture?
Answer :- Yes, we eat the rice with curd.
Humans didn’t eat every food in natural form, so preparation of any food requires various materials and these additives make the food delicious and tasty. Therefore the additives which increases the quality of food and increases the taste is called ingredients.
The ingredients is a part of food which adds taste to the food. These ingredients provide not only taste but also various nutrients that are essential for day to day life. Nutrients are the substances which gives proper nutrition to the body such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals and trace elements etc. The fact is that only some sort of food gives nutrients other food like fast food, pizza, vada pav, pasta, street food etc are not included in balanced diet.
For preparation of any food or any recipe one or more than one ingredient are needed.
For example: For preparation of syrup, 2 ingredients are needed, namely water and sugar.
You can easily observe that we use same ingredients for different foods.