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Foods We Eat

Description: Question on EVS for class 3 Foods We Eat
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Which of the following food items is a roughage rich and energy giving food?

  1. Butter

  2. Apple

  3. Porridge

  4. Milk

  5. Both option 2 and 3


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is a right answer. Porridge is roughage rich food as it is made up of whole grain (wheat), and it is also a energy giving food because it is made of wheat, which is rich in carbohydrates.

I am an essential part of your food. I do not provide you energy but help you to fight against diseases. I am found in good quantity in citrus fruits. Who am I?

  1. Vitamin A

  2. Iron

  3. Vitamin C

  4. Calcium

  5. Protein


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is a right answer. Vitamin C is not an essential part of our food, but it develops strong immunity to fight against diseases. All citrus fruits like lemon, oranges, sweet lime are rich in Vitamin C.

Various parts of different plants are eaten, the flower of which of the following vegetables is edible?

  1. Cabbage

  2. Broccoli

  3. Onion

  4. Cauliflower

  5. Both option 2 and 4


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is a right answer. Both broccoli and cauliflower is a flower that we eat as vegetable.

Which of the following food items is a fruit that we eat?

  1. Onion

  2. Coconut

  3. Tomato

  4. Mushrooms

  5. Both option 2 and 3


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is a right answer. Both tomato and coconut are fruits that we eat.

Which of the following nutrients provide energy to our body?

  1. Proteins

  2. Carbohydrates

  3. Minerals

  4. Vitamins

  5. Roughage


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Carbohydrates are energy giving food, they release energy very quickly. So this is a right answer. Wheat, rice potato are some carbohydrate rich food.

If we want to preserve food for a long time which of the following methods can we apply?

  1. Increase the quantity of water in the food.

  2. Store food at a high temperature.

  3. Add salt in a high concentration to the food.

  4. Add sugar in a high concentration to the food.

  5. Both option 3 and 4


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is a right answer. Both option 3 and 4 can be used to preserve food for a long time.

Which of the following statements is wrong?

  1. Vitamins and minerals are protective foods.

  2. Proteins helps in growth and body building.

  3. Carbohydrates and fats are energy giving food.

  4. Cooking makes food soft, tasty and easy to digest.

  5. Boiling, drying, salting, sweetening, freezing and canning are different ways of cooking food.


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This statement is incorrect. Boiling, drying, salting, sweetening, freezing and canning are different ways of preserving the food not the ways of cooking food.

Which of the following food items can be eaten raw?

  1. Onion

  2. Cabbage

  3. Carrots

  4. Pineapple

  5. All of the above


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the right answer. As all the food items above are eaten raw.

Which of the following is not a fruit?

  1. Apple

  2. Pomegranate

  3. Tomato

  4. Turnip

  5. Both option 3 and 4


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Turnip is a root used as vegetable.So this is a right answer.

Rajat is habitual to a heavy breakfast. Generally his mom gives him parantha, butter, boiled potato and jaggery. What kind of food he is having as breakfast?

  1. Protective food

  2. Body building food

  3. Roughage giving food

  4. Energy giving food

  5. Cannot be determined


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Food items rich in carbohydrates are energy giving food. Food items such as potato, parantha, jaggery, and butter are energy giving food.

An obese person is likely to suffer from which of the following diseases?

  1. Jaundice

  2. High blood pressure

  3. AIDS

  4. Cancer

  5. Anorexia nervosa


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

High blood pressure is a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high. An obese person generally suffers from this disease.

Which of the following food component is required in a very small quantity by our body?

  1. Carbohydrate

  2. Protein

  3. Roughage

  4. Minerals

  5. Fats


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is a right answer. Minerals are required in very small quantity from our body. Minerals are protective food and help us in keeping fit and healthy.

Suraj is an obese child. Every time he needs support of some one to perform his daily activity. He is obese because of the over intake of which of the following food component?

  1. Carbohydates

  2. Fats

  3. Minerals

  4. Vitamins

  5. Proteins


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Fats are energy storage molecules & supply more energy per gram that carbohydrates or proteins. If the intake of fat increases, it starts depositing inside our body and makes us obese.

In which of the following methods of cooking, fat is used in a minimum quantity?

  1. Baking

  2. Shallow frying

  3. Deep frying

  4. Steaming

  5. Grilling


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In this method, food is cooked in the steam of a boiling liquid that is usually water. Steaming is the method of cooking in which negligible or no fat is used.

Sujata is making idlis for breakfast. What process must she use to prepare idlis?

  1. Frying

  2. Baking

  3. Roasting

  4. Steaming

  5. Boiling


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is a right answer. Steaming is the process in which water is added to a pot and then a stand is placed inside the pot. The water level should be under the stand and not above it. Idlis are made by this process.

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