Where Does Food Come From? Food is important. We need food to grow and keep healthy. Food gives us energy. We all need to eat. But where does it come from? The store? No! You buy food at the store. But food comes from two things: animals and plants!
Food from Plants Fruits, like apples and bananas, and vegetables, like broccoli and carrots come from plants. We use wheat to make bread and pasta. We also get rice, sugar, and tea from plants.
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Food from Animals Animals give us many foods. They give us meat, like chicken, beef, and pork. Beef comes from cows, and pork comes from pigs. Can you guess where chicken comes from? Cows also give us milk and chickens give us eggs. Fish are animals and we eat them, too. Some people don’t eat meat. They are called vegetarians. Do you eat meat?
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Tasty! Why do your favorite foods taste really good? Because there are little things on our tongues called taste buds. The tongue tastes four flavors— sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Everything you taste is a combination of these flavors. There are lots of taste buds on your tongue!
Your nose helps too! It can smell food and it makes food taste great. Next time you eat something, hold your nose. It tastes different, right? Let go of your nose. Now you get the real flavor of the food!
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Where Do We Eat? There are a lot of places where we eat food. In school, at home, at the park, in restaurants, at the movies. Where is your favorite place to eat?
Breakfast I always eat breakfast at home. There are many types of breakfast. My favorite is pancakes. I put bananas, butter, and maple syrup on my pancakes. Mom doesn’t let me eat them every day. Tina
Lunch I eat lunch in school. It’s really tasty and really healthy. At the weekend, I go with my family to a restaurant. We always eat lunch in a restaurant on Sunday. Sometimes we have a picnic, too! Kate
Dinner Dinner is my favorite meal of the day. We eat hot dogs sometimes and sometimes hamburgers, with French fries! I love French fries. I eat fruit after. I love apples, too. Miguel Food, Glorious Food! 39
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Strange Foods! There are some strange foods around the world. Let’s look at some! This is a durian. It’s a fruit. It’s from Indonesia in Asia. It tastes really good, but it smells really bad!
These are scorpions. In China, they eat them fried!
This is a pufferfish. It can be very dangerous to eat. They eat this in Japan. They call it fugu!
In Mexico, they eat fried grasshoppers and ant eggs! They are really tasty!
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Healthy Diets Healthy eating is very important. Try not to eat too much sugar. And when you need a snack, eat fruit or vegetables not candies, chocolate, or chips. Try and eat slower, too, and help your family to prepare meals. It’s fun! The picture shows you what you should eat every day. Grains are things like bread and rice. Dairy is things like yogurt and cheese. Protein is eggs and meat. Food, Glorious Food!
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Worksheet 5 Food, Glorious Food! 1 Complete the sentences with your own ideas. My favorite food is
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I like it because
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I also like to eat
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2 Write the foods in the correct columns.
apple
eggs
bread Foods that come from plants
milk
banana
carrots
bacon
cheese
Foods that come from animals
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3 Answer the questions. What do you eat for breakfast?
What do you eat for lunch?
What do you eat for dinner?
4 Draw and color a healthy lunch.
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