Animal Foods

Looking Around 2 — Healthy Food / Animals. Milk, eggs, and animal sources appear alongside plant foods in Healthy Food and Animals.

• Some foods come from animals.
• Milk, eggs, honey — without killing the animal.
• Meat and fish (intro — some families eat, some don't).

Verbal: Animal foods include milk, eggs, and honey. Many Indian families also eat vegetarian plant-based meals with milk products.

Symbolic: Milk → cow/buffalo; egg → hen; honey → bees. Milk → curd, paneer, ghee.

Level 1 — Animal products

Level 1 — Milk products

Curd, paneer, ghee, butter from milk.

Level 1 — Vegetarian choice

Many Indians eat vegetarian — plant food + milk products.

Level 2 — Freshness

Milk and eggs need refrigeration.

Level 2 — India

Doodh morning delivery; paneer in curry.

What animal gives us milk?

Step 1 — Milk comes from mammals.
Step 2 — In India: cow, buffalo, goat.
Step 3 — Most common: **cow**.
Answer: Cow (also buffalo, goat)

• Name two foods from animals.
• What do we make from milk?
• Hen gives us what food?

Stretch: Name two animal foods and two plant foods in a typical Indian thali. Which come without harming the animal?

Revision tip: Trace your breakfast — mark each item as plant source or animal source.

Open the Practice tab for graded questions on Animal Foods.