Food: Where does it come from ?

Mustard plant’s seeds give us oil and its leaves are used as vegetables.

Put small quantity of seeds in a container filled with water and leave this for one day. Next day drain the water completely and leave the seeds in the vessel. Wrap the seeds with a piece of wet clothes and open it in the following day, we will observe a small white structure have grown out of the seeds, seeds with such small white structure are called sprouted .

Plants give us products like Grain, cereals, vegetables and, fruits. But animals give us products like milk and milk products, egg, meat, chicken, fish, prawn, beef, pork etc.

A bee collects nectar from flowers, converts it into honey and stores it in their hive. These honeys are collected from beehives and are used as food products.

Different animals have different feeding habit. Some eat green plans and plant products and are called herbivores like cow and deer. Some feed on flesh of other animals and are called carnivores. Like lion. Some animals eat both plants and animals and are called omnivores, like humans, rat etc.

Following are the five plants products:
1. Apple tree -fruit
2. Wheat plant- Seed
3. Potato plant- Stem
4. Beetroot- Root
5. Spinach plant- Leaves

Ghee, paneer, cheeses, butter, ice-cream, yogurt etc.

All food products that we get from plants and plants products are called vegetarian food products. Like cereals, grains vegetables and fruits.

Food products like chicken, meat and their products are called non-vegetarian food products.