Plant Foods

Looking Around 2 — Healthy Food / Plants. Roots, stems, leaves, fruits, and grains from Plants and Healthy Food match this topic exactly.

• Many foods come from plants.
• Different plant parts we eat: roots, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds.
• Grains and vegetables in Indian meals.

Verbal: We eat different parts of plants — carrot root, spinach leaf, rice seed.

Symbolic: Table: root → carrot; stem → potato; leaf → palak; fruit → mango; seed → wheat/rice.

Level 1 — Plant parts as food

Level 1 — Raw vs cooked

Some plants eaten raw (fruit); some cooked (dal).

Level 1 — Seasonal

Mango in summer; sarson saag in winter.

Level 2 — Farmers grow plant food

Paddy fields, vegetable gardens.

Level 2 — India

Roti from wheat; idli from rice — plant seeds.

Which part of plant is a carrot?

Step 1 — Carrot grows **underground**.
Step 2 — It is the root part.
Step 3 — Root stores food for plant.
Answer: Root

• Name a fruit and a vegetable you eat.
• Rice comes from which plant part?
• Is coconut a fruit or vegetable?

Stretch: Is tomato a fruit or vegetable (kitchen vs science)? Which part of the plant is onion?

Revision tip: At dinner, name one plant part on your plate — root, stem, leaf, fruit, or seed.

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