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Food from Plants

We get different kinds of food from plants. We eat roots, stems, leaves,
fruits and flowers as vegetables and seeds as cereals and pulses.

Stems Roots Leaves Flowers Seeds Fruits

Potato Carrot Spinach Cauliflower Corn Mango

Onion Radish Cabbage Broccoli Peas Orange

Ginger Turnip Lettuce Grapes

Sugarcane Banana

WOW!

Brinjal, tomato, lemon and ladies' finger are fruits!

Walnut Cashewnut Almond Groundnut
We also get nuts from plants. Nuts are dry fruits with a hard shell.
Examples : walnut, cashew, almond, groundnut, etc.

We get spices from

plants. Spices add special
flavour and taste to our

food. Examples : turmeric,
black pepper, cardamom,

clove, chillies, etc. Turmeric Black Pepper Cardamom

Plants also give us refreshing drinks.

We make tea from dried leaves of
the tea plant.

Tea Leaves Tea
We get coffee from seeds of the coffee plant or

cocoa.
Coffee beans Coffee
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