In this lesson we are going to learn an interesting fact about food and different variety of food that we eat during day today life. Everyone likes a different food according to the taste. So we will start our discussion with some basic questions:
Question and answers
1.) Why does human being need food ?
Answer:- Humans need food to get energy.
2.) What do you like to eat?
Answer :- Students mention any taste (sweet, spicy)
3.) Have you observe that all living beings eat different kinds of food ?
Answer :- Yes.
4.) If yes, why ?
Answer :- According to their likes and dislikes.
So students have to answer all the question based on their understanding.
Variety in Food
Food variety can be defined as eating of mixture of foods include like vegetables, cereals, fruits, dairy products, dry fruits, poultry products and fishes. Therefore every person eat a different variety of food according to their need, home environment and climatic condition.
Every individual requires food as it gives energy to perform functions, food provide a range of nutrients such as vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. These nutrients are essential to perform daily functions. Every person must eat a required amount of food to avoid weakness and diseases.
A food gives us nutrients. There seem to be different kinds of food that we do it according to need so the list is quite long.
It contains rice, wheat, maize vegetables, green vegetable, fruits, sprouted grains, eggs, fish, pickles, cheese, curd, idli, dosa, chapati, etc and many more. Every person consumes the food according to taste, habitat, climate and their health condition.
Figure 1: Variety of food
Activity 1 :In the school, observe the tiffin of your friends and you will come to conclusion that everyone needs a different diet according to their health and likes and dislikes.
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Name of the student/ friend | Food |
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