Fruits

Looking Around 2 — Healthy Food / Plants. Seasonal fruits and vitamins in Healthy Food and Plants chapters match this topic.

• Fruits are usually sweet and colourful.
• They have vitamins that keep us healthy.
• Many Indian fruits are seasonal.

Verbal: Fruits are colourful plant foods with seeds inside — mango, banana, guava — usually eaten raw.

Symbolic: Fruit → vitamins (e.g. Vitamin C in amla). Eat whole fruit > only juice (keeps fibre).

Level 1 — What is a fruit?

Plant part with seeds inside — mango, apple, guava.

Level 1 — Eat raw

Most fruits eaten without cooking.

Level 1 — Vitamins

Vitamin C in amla, orange — helps body fight illness.

Level 2 — Seasonal

Mango — summer; apple — cooler months.

Level 2 — India

Alphonso mango, banana, papaya, jamun in monsoon.

Why do doctors say eat a fruit every day?

Step 1 — Fruits have **vitamins and fibre**.
Step 2 — Vitamins help growth and health.
Step 3 — Daily fruit keeps body strong.
Answer: For vitamins and good health.

• Name your favourite fruit.
• Mango — raw or usually cooked?
• Which fruit is yellow and curved?

Stretch: Name one summer fruit and one monsoon fruit in India. Why is whole mango better than only packaged juice?

Revision tip: Try a new seasonal fruit this month — draw it and label the seed inside.

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