Food: Where does it come from? Class 6th Chapter-1 Science

In this chapter we have discussed about food and it's variety all over the India also about the source of our food and differentiated animals on the basis of what they eat.

1. Food: where does it come from?

2. Your Favorite Food

3. Food Variety

4. What is ingredients ? -Anything needed to prepare a dish For example- Rice cooked at home, we take raw rice and boil it in water. These two material rice and water needed for cooked rice we eat with curry. Preparation of sambhar. Vegetables Spices Sambhar

5. Food materials and sources Some of the ingredients that we use i.e. fruits and vegetables, where do they come from? Plants, of course! Sources of wheat and rice-paddy of wheat fields (rows of plants), which gives us these grains .

6. Plant source Pulses Dry Fruits Vegetables Cereals Fruits

7. Animal source Milk and it’s product (milk, butter, curd, cheese, cottage cheese, condensed milk, ghee etc.) Animal and it’s product (eggs, fish, meat etc.)

8. Question for you Name some other animals who provides us milk. Goat Camel Sheep Buffalo Yak

9. Plant Parts And Animal Products As Food Plants are one source of our food. We eat many leafy vegetables. We eat fruits of plants, sometimes roots, sometimes stems and even flower. Some plants have two or more edible (eatable) parts. Example-Seeds of mustard plants give us oil and the leaves are used as a vegetable.

10. Activity Take dry seeds of Moong or Chana. Fill with water and leave this aside for a day. Next day drain the water completely and leave the seeds in the bowl. Wrap them with a piece of wet cloth and set aside. A small white structure may have grown out of the seeds, the seeds have sprouted . Now you can eat this .

11. Where honey comes from, or how it is produced ? Bees collect nectar from flower. Convert it into honey . Store it in their hive . Flowers and their nectar may be available only for apart of the year. So, bees store this nectar for their use all through the year. We collect the food stored by the bees as honey.

12. What do animals eat ? Herbivores - animals which eat only plants or plant products .

13. Carnivores Carnivores - animals which eat other animals.

14. Omnivores Omnivores - animals which eat both plants and animals .

15. Thank You