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Spices : We add spices to our food to give it taste, colour and smell.

Some common spices are mustard seeds (rai), cumin seeds (jeera),
cardamom (elaichi), red chillies and coriander (dhania).

Mustard Seeds Cumin Seeds Cardamom Chillies

CAN YOU BELIEVE ?

Neem and mint have medicinal value.

Oil : We get oil from the seeds of some plants. Mustard, groundnut and

sunflower are some of them.

Groundnut Oil Mustard Oil Sunflower Oil

! We get many things from plants like food, fruit, spices, dry fruits,
cereals, pulses, oil etc.
! We eat some parts of plants like leaves, stem, flower and seed.

! Some fruits are eaten after they are dried. They are called dry fruits.
! We get cooking oil from plants.
! Spices make our food tasty and colourful.

Check Yourself

A. Tick (ü) the correct option : Critical Thinking

1. The leaves that we eat are of ___________________ .

(a) carrot (b) potato (c) spinach

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