Food We Eat
Category : 1st Class
Healthy and Nutritious Food
A healthy, nutritious and balance food is one that helps to maintain and improve our health. We need to take healthy and nutritious food to keep our body safe from diseases and for having a good life. The components of healthy and nutritious food are:
1. Carbohydrates
2. Fats
3. Proteins
4. Minerals
5. Vitamins
6. Water
7. Roughage
These components are also the necessary elements for the growth of our body.
They are found in little or in more quantity in all eatables, like rice, wheat, pulses, maize, vegetables, honey, milk, meat, fish, etc. This is the reason these foods are considered as healthy and nutritious.
Let us see the pictures of healthy and nutritious foods:
Which one of the following statements is a false statement?
(a) Protein is one of the components of healthy food
(b) Fat is one of the components of healthy food
(c) Water is not necessary for our body
(d) Vitamins is necessary for our body
Answer: (c)
Explanation
Option (C) is correct because, water is necessary for our body,
Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect.
Healthy food is important for the growth of our_____.
(a) Only hand (b) Body
(c) Only fingers (d) only ears
Answer: (b)
Explanation
Option (B) is correct because healthy food contains all the nutrients required for the growth of our body. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect.
Food Containing Roughage
Let us see pictures of some foods containing roughage:
Note: Mile, Eggs, Cheese, Butter, Ghee, Meats and Fishes contain zero roughage.
Which one of the following is the source of roughage?
(a) Ghee (b) Cheese
(c) Meat (d) Apple
Answer: (d)
Explanation
Option (D) is correct because, apple contains roughage. The skin of apple is eatable and fruits with eatable skin contain roughage. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect
Roughage is also called_____.
(a) Fiber (b) Steel
(c) Soil (d) Plastic
Answer: (a)
Explanation
Option (A) is correct because roughage is also called fiber. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect.
Junk or Fast Food
Given below are the properties of junk or fast food:
Junk food includes eatables, such as soft drinks, hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, cake, French fries, noodles, chocolate, and other confectionery, pizza, cookies etc. Let us see the picture of some fast food:
Which one of the following statements is true?
(a) Junk foods are highly nutritious
(b) Junk foods contain no fats
(c) Junk foods contain large amount of fruits
(d) Junk foods are unhealthy
Answer: (d)
Explanation
Option (D) is correct because, junk foods are unhealthy. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect.
Which one of the following is the example of junk food?
(a) Rice (b) Potato
(c) Noodles (d) Apple
Answer: (C)
Explanation
Option (C) is correct because noodles is the example of Junk foods.
Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect.
Cereals
Cereals are a kind of grass producing starchy grains, used as food. This grains are in the form of seeds.
rice, wheat, oats, corns, etc.
Let us see the pictures of cereals given below:
___________ is a cereal.
(a) Rice (b) Potato
(c) Capsicum (d) Cabbage
Answer: (a)
Explanation
Option (A) is correct. Rest of the options is incorrect because they all are vegetables.
Read the following statements carefully and find out the correct one.
(a) Grapes are cereals (b) Mango is a cereal
(c) Carrot is a cereal (d) Wheat is a cereal
Answer: (d)
Explanation
Option (D) is correct because, wheat is a cereal. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect because they all are false statements. Grapes, mango and carrots are fruits.
Pulses
Let us see the pictures of pulses:
Which one of the following food items are eaten with pulses?
(a) Rice (b) Biscuits
(c) Ice – cream (d) Sweets
Answer: (a)
Explanation
Option (A) is correct because rice is a cereal and pulse is a staple food with cereals. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect.
Read the following statements carefully and find out the correct one.
(a) Rice is a pulse (b) Oat is a pulse
(c) Pigeon pea is a pulse (d) Wheat is a pulse
Answer: (c)
Explanation
Option (C) is correct because Pigeon pea is a pulse. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect, because they all are false statements. In fact, rice, oat and wheat are cereals.
Meat
Meat producing creatures are goat, sheep, pig, chicken, lamb, etc.
Let us see some meat producing creatures:
Which one of the following is used for the production of meat?
(a) Millet (b) Rice
(c) Maize (d) Goat
Answer: (d)
Explanation
Option (D) is correct because goat is an animal and an animal's flesh is called meat. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect.
Which one of the following is not a true statement?
(a) Sheep produces meat (b) Chicken produces meat
(c) Millet produces meat (d) Pig produces meat
Answer: (c)
Explanation
Option (C) is correct because millet is a cereal and a cereal is a vegetarian food item. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect. In fact we get meat from sheep, chicken and pig.
FISH
Fish is also a non-vegetarian food, as it is a water animal.
Fish contains good amount of proteins and fats.
Let us see the fishes in the picture given below.
Which one of the following is non-vegetarian food?
(a) Rice and vegetables (b) Chapati and Vegetables
(c) Mutton and fish (d) Rice and Pulse
Answers: (C)
Explanation
Option (C) is correct because, rest of the options are the examples of vegetarian food.
Which one of the following is the picture of non-vegetarian food?
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Answer: (b)
Explanation
Option (B) is correct because, this is a picture of fishes and a fish is a non-vegetarian food item. Therefore, rest of the options is incorrect because, these all are vegetables.
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