TS 6th Class Science Guide 1st Lesson Our Food

TS Board Telangana SCERT Class 6 Science Solutions 1st Lesson Our Food Textbook Questions and Answers.

TS 6th Class Science 1st Lesson Questions and Answers Telangana – Our Food

Question 1.
What are the common food items usually eaten by you?
Answer:
Rice, dosa, idly, chapathi, biryani, payasam, leafy vegetable dishes, chicken, mutton, soup, dal, curries of various vegetables etc.

Question 2.
Find out the ingredients of the given food items.
1. Pachipulusu,
2. Coconut chutney,
3. Jilebi,
4. Onion pakodi
Answer:

1. Pachipulusu: Tamarind, onion, dry chilli, jeera, salt, pepper powder, necessary volume of water and jaggery.
2. Coconut chutney: Coconut pieces, dry chilli or green chilli, oil, salt, onion, mustard seeds, little amount of black gram, red gram etc.
3. jilebi: Maida flour, jaggery syrup, oil etc.
4. Onion pakodi: Onions, salt, dry chilli, oil, besan flour (senagapindi), rice powder.

Question 3.
Write down the process of making upma or any other snack of your choice.
(Or)
List out the essential ingredients of your desired food items and explain the preparation.
(Or)
Describe the preparation of snacks of your Interest.
(Or)
Write the process of preparing any food item you take In the morning.
Answer:
Aim : The process of making upma by my choice at home.

Required ingredients :
Sufficient amount of upma ravva, edible oil, water, green or dry chilli, talimpu dinusulu (red gram, black gram, mustard seeds), tomatoes, curry leaves, onions, salt etc.

Procedure:

• First, required edible oil is heated in a dish.
• Now add, talimpu dinusulu, green or dry chillies, curry leaves and tomato pieces along with onion pieces.
• Fry all the ingredients for sometime.
• Immediately certain amount of water is added to the fried ingredients. The liquid mixture is boiled for sometime. Needed amount of salt is added to the mixture.
• Finally required amount of upma ravva is added to the boiled liquid mixture and stirred well. Sometime is taken for complete boiling of all the ingredients.

Observation : 1 observed the delicious flavour of the dish while it is boiling on the stove.

Result : I got tasty upma.

Precautions : 1 used a kitchen spoon for stirring the liquid mixture after adding of upma ravva to prevent unwanted pellets.

Question 4.
Collect any wrapper of packaged food. Read the information details and answer the following questions.
a. When was it manufactured and how long can we use it?
b. What ingredients does it contain, name them?
Answer:

• I collected the wrapper of Kissan mixed fruit jam.
• It was manufactured in the month of January – 2018.
• It can long last upto the month of September – 2018.
• The ingredients present in the jam are sugar, mixed fruit pulp 46%, acidity regulator -330, vitamin B3, preservatives, pineapple and strawberry flavouring substances, synthetic food colour, added flavours and artificial raspberry etc.

Question 5.
Shahina’s mother always cooks plain rice! If the same rice is used to make kichidi, payasam or biryani how would you feel eating those?
Answer:

• It’s a new experience to have a new taste or aroma of the kichidi or payasam or biryani.
• Because Shahina’s mother’s idea is to satisfy her family members with new delicious dish with regularly used rice.
• She applied innovative method of preparing different tasty food items with routinely used rice.
• But each food item (payasam / kichidi/ biryani) has its own taste or aroma.
• Paya sam gives sweet taste, kichidi and biryani give us spicy taste.

Question 6.
List out the names of some plants that grow in your village. Which parts of it are used as food?
(or)
Write the information you collected about the plants that grow In your locality. Also write the parts of the plants which are used as food.

S.No.	Name of the plant	Part that we eat
1.	Amaranth	leaves

Answer:
List of the names of some plants that grow in our village.

S.No.	Name of the plant	Part that we eat
1.	Amaranth (Thotakura)	leaves, stem
2.	Sugarcane	stem
3.	Carrot	root
4.	Onion	bulb, leaves
5.	Cabbage	leaves
6.	Murraya (curry)	leaves

Question 7.
Some food materials are given below. What are the different possible ways of cooking them ? Find out and write them.
Meat – Groundnuts- Potatoes – Spinach.
Answer:
The following different possible ways of cooking for the following food material.

• Meat : Steaming, frying.
• Groundnuts : Steaming, frying, boiling.
• Potatoes : Steaming, frying, boiling, roasting.
• Spinach : Steaming, shallow frying, cutting and mixing.

Question 8.
With the help of your teacher, form groups of 5 or 6 students of your class.
Make a fruit chat or vegetable salad and eat it.
How do you feel ? Write a few lines about your experience.
(Or)
How did you do the project work in groups instructed by your science teacher on making fruit or vegetable salad?
Answer:
Project work:

• Introduction : With the help of our teacher all of our classmates were divided into 5 groups.
• Aim of the Project : Our teacher advised us to make a fruit salad.
• Collection of the fruits : We collected fruits like papaya, grapes, pineapple,ripened mangoes and an apple.
• Procedure: We chopped all the fruits and mixed them in a big bowl. Thesalad is ready.
• Taste of the salad : Our teacher asked us to taste the salad. We started eatingit. We felt very tasty of the mixture of different fruit pieces. The taste of the salad is sweet, sour and juicy.

Question 9.
Ask your friend to think the name of any food item. Now you have to guess its name. For this you can ask some questions. Your friend can only answer It In Yes or No. What I How many questions did you ask before you could guess the name?
Answer:
This is based on the idea or plan of the individual at a specific time. Therefore every one can apply own method of questioning about different varieties of food items. India is famous for “Nala Bheema Pakam” throughout the entire food world.
[One item is discussed and given below.]
Person ‘A’ thinks about one tasty food item. He asks person ‘B’ to guess the food item that he thinks about. Then person ‘B’ starts asking the following questions. Person A gives yes or no answers.

(Likewise we can do the activity for so many food items in the class. Put as many questions as possible to get the answer)

Question 10.
List out the Ingredients needed to make vada. Are they same for dosa? Identify the differences In your list.
Answer:

Ingredients for Vada	Ingredients for Dosa
1. Red gram flour is used.	1. Black gram and rice flour are used.
2. Jeera, ginger, green chilly, onions etc., are also used	2. For onion dosa, onions are necessary.
3. Ingredients paste is fried in the oil soon after making it.	3. The ingredients mixture (dough) is to be fermented before one day for making
4. More oil is required in the fry dish.	4. Less oil is applied on fry pan.
5. Salt is added.	5. Salt is added

Question 11.
Latha’s mother has prepared the following statements for you. Find out the wrong ones among these. But don’t forget to give your reasons.
a. We can get food from plants and animals only.
b. Spices, oils, salt and meat are the ingredients of a chicken curry.
c. Plants are the source of honey.
Answer:
a. We can get food from plants and animals only.
b. ‘b’ is wrong. Spices, oils, salt, chicken flesh and bones are the ingredients of a chicken curry.
c. Third sentence is not accurate. We get from bee-hive. Honey bees extract honey from the flowers in the for. The nectar sucked by the bees is converted into honey in the bee. So both plants and honey bees are source of honey.

Question 12.
Find out from your parents the various methods of preserving food and write a note on them.
Answer:
I asked my parents and collected the information of various methods of preserving different food items. Methods of food preservation are:

• Smoking
• Salting
• Canning
• Drying
• Freezing
• Mechanical drying etc.

Question 13.
Collect information about the main food habits of different states of India.
Refer to the Atlas, library books and discuss with your teacher.
(or)
Write the details of information you collected on food habits of the people
In different regions of India. Write the procedure that how you collected the data.
(or)
On what basis development of food habits takes place. Give suitable examples.
Answer:
Food habits develop based on the availability of food material, culture and climatic conditions.
Result : The following food habits have been listed in the form of table

S.No.	Region/state	Food habits
1.	Andhra Pradesh	Rice & curry, idli, dosa etc.
2.	Punjab & Haryana	Chapathi, roti etc.
3.	Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand	Chapathi with curry
4.	Maharashtra	Roti, kurma, panipuri
5.	Odisha	Rice and curry
6.	Kerala	Coconut oil flavoured items
7.	Tamil Nadu	Sambar, idly, rice etc.
8.	Karnataka	Rice, curry etc.

Question 14.
Suppose If fish I raw mangoes I lemons are given to you, how would you preserve them?
Answer: If choose raw mangoes to preserve, I can use the following method.
Aim : To preserve the raw mangoes in the form of pickle.
Required ingredients : Pieces of raw mango, salt, edible oil, red chilli powder, dry chillies, fenugreek powder, mustard seeds, garlic, red gram (dal) turmeric powder etc.

Procedure:

• Mangoes are Cut into pieces. Certain amount of salt is added to the pieces.
• Sufficient amount of mustard and fenugreek powders are added to the pieces and mixed thoroughly.
• Then fresh chili powder is added followed by mixing of oil to the entire mixture.
• All the mixture is preserved for 2 or 3 days. On fourth day mango pieces mixture is tasted for finding out uniformity of added ingredients.
• Then sufficient amount of oil is boiled with Talimpu dinusulu (dry chillies, red gram, mustard seeds etc.) poured into the mango pieces jar.
• Now the pickle is ready. We can preserve this pickle for a few months.

Question 15.
Make a list of animals and insects from which we get food.
a. Write the names of these animals on slips of paper. On the otherside of the slip write the names of food we get from the animals – milk, eggs or meat.
b. Sort the slips into groups. Write the names of the animals in the correct portions of the circles shown below.
c. Are there any portions where none of the animals fit? Explain why.
Answer:
a.

List of the animals birds and Insects	The products of the birds, animals and Insects
1.Hen 2. Duck 3. Emu 4. Goat 5. Sheep 6. Honeybee 7. Prawn 8. Turkey hen	Chicken, egg Meat, egg Egg, meat Meat (mutton) Meat Honey Meat Eggs, chicken

b.

c. There is a no specific portion for the special insect called Honey bee. Honey bee is neither milk giving nor meat giving and egg laying individual. We can extract only honey from the honey bee. Hence it is unfit.

TS 6th Class Science 1st Lesson Notes Our Food

• We get food from plants and animals.
• For cooking food. we need different types of ingredients.
• We use different parts of plants like stems, roots, leaves, fruits and flowers as food.
• The taste of food is based on its ingredients, method of preparation and cultural practices of the region.
• Boiling, steaming, fermentation are some methods of preparing food.
• We use preservatives to preserve food for sometime.
• Sugar syrup or honey is a good preservative. Fruits are often preserved in sugar syrup or honey. Jams and fruit juices are good examples of preservation with sugar.
• When you purchase any food item in the market, we should not forget to read about its ingredients and manufacturing date.
• Outdated food material may damage our health.
• Ingredients: The agents which are added in the food.
• Preservatives: The substances which help in storing food.
• Fragrants: The agents which impart smell to the food.
• Dry fruits: We can preserve the fruits by drying. Eg: Date palm, Anjura