NCERT Solutions Class 4 The World Around Us Chapter 5 Food for Health

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CLASS 4 · THE WORLD AROUND US

NCERT Solutions

Chapter 5: Food for Health

NCERT Textbook — Our Wondrous World

BOOK PAGES SECTIONS QUESTIONS MEDIUM

71 – 84 10 21 English

Solutions, notes, sample papers & more at 26 pages

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CLASS 4 · THE WORLD AROUND US · OUR WONDROUS WORLD

NCERT Solutions — Chapter 5: Food for Health
Chapter 5 of Our Wondrous World takes you to a school food festival. Stall by stall you meet the six tastes, the
three food groups, a balanced plate, water, and the many ways in which food is cooked.

TEXTBOOK BOOK PAGES

Our Wondrous World (Class 4) 71 – 84

SECTIONS QUESTIONS

10 21

MEDIUM

English

Think and Write — Page 73
The day of the food festival

THINK AND WRITE

Q1 If you had to organise a food festival in your school, which dishes would you like to
include? Make a list.

This is your own list, so make it the way the book made its own list on page 72 — pick dishes
from many different regions and from all three food groups.

Step 1 — Write down 3 dishes your family cooks at home.

Step 2 — Ask 3 friends for one special dish from their region.

Step 3 — Add one millet dish, one fruit or salad dish, and one sweet.

Step 4 — Check: is there something energy-giving, something body-building and

something protective in your list?

Sample answer:

Litti-chowkha (Bihar)
Dal-baati-churma (Rajasthan)
Dhokla (Gujarat)
Chhena-poda (Odisha)
Siddu (Himachal Pradesh)

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Hot dosa with sambhar (Tamil Nadu)
Jowar upma and ragi laddu (millet stall)
Sprouts salad and a fruit chaat

Why it happens: A food festival is meant to show variety. Different regions cook
different things, so a mixed list lets everyone taste something new.

Tip: Write the name of the state or region next to each dish. Then your list also
becomes a small map of India’s food.

Write and Discuss — Page 74
Mystery Masala

WRITE DISCUSS

Q1 Can you think of at least five ingredients or food items that match each of the
tastes listed below? Write them down in the spaces provided. See the example given
below:

Here is the table with five food items written under each taste. The first line is the example the
book gives.

TASTE SWEET SOUR SALTY PUNGENT BITTER ASTRINGENT

INGREDIENTS Jaggery Tamarind Salt Green chilli Neem Raw mango

The blank table as printed in the book.

Completed table:

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TASTE SWEET SOUR SALTY PUNGENT BITTER ASTRINGENT

INGREDIENTS Jaggery Tamarind Salt Green chilli Neem Raw mango

1 Sugar Lemon Papad Black Bitter gourd Raw banana
pepper (karela)

2 Honey Curd Pickle Ginger Fenugreek Pomegranate
(methi)
leaves

3 Banana Amla Namkeen Mustard Turmeric Jamun

4 Ripe Tomato Salted Garlic Fenugreek Unripe guava
mango lassi seeds

5 Dates Kokum Rock salt Radish Drumstick Chickpea
leaves (chana)

Why it happens: Every food carries one taste more strongly than the others. Our
tongue picks up that taste first, so we can sort foods into these six groups.

Did you know? These six tastes are called shad rasa in Ayurveda. Ugadi Pachadi puts
all six in one bowl, which is why it tasted different to each child at the stall.

Check it yourself: Your table may have other names in it — that is fine. Just make
sure each item really has that taste.

Q2 Discuss in small groups and identify the food items having at least three different
tastes.

The six tastes are the ones listed in the table just above this box on page 74.

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Find out and Discuss — Page 75
A Stall of ‘Super Food’ / How Does Food Help Us?

FIND OUT DISCUSS

Q1 Find out more about a millet-based food prepared at your home.

Millets are grains like jowar, bajra, ragi and jau. This is the menu board hanging at the ‘Super
Food’ stall on page 75.

SUPER FOOD — MENU

Jowar Upma

Raggi Laddoo

Bajre ki Khichdi

The menu board at the millet stall in the picture on page 75.

Step 1 — Ask at home which millet dish is cooked in your kitchen.

Step 2 — Write its name and the millet used in it.

Step 3 — Ask who cooks it, and in which season it is eaten.

Step 4 — Write the main ingredients and one line about how it is made.

Sample answer:

Name of the dish: Bajre ki roti
Millet used: Bajra
Season: Winter — my grandmother says it keeps the body warm.
Ingredients: Bajra flour, water, a little salt, ghee.
How it is made: The flour is kneaded, patted into a round roti by hand and roasted on a
tawa.
Eaten with: Ghee, jaggery or sarson ka saag.

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Why it happens: Millets are rich sources of nutrients, so a millet dish gives more
goodness than the same amount of plain flour. That is why they are called super
food.

Did you know? Surbhi’s grandmother ate jowar and bajra roti in winter and jau roti
in summer — different millets suit different seasons.

Note on the book: The stall board on page 75 spells it Raggi Laddoo, while page 72
spells the same sweet ragi laddu. Both mean the same millet laddu.

Q2 Why do we need to eat different kinds of food items?

Because no single food has everything our body needs. Each food gives something different.

Some foods give us energy to run and play — rice, roti, potato, banana, ghee.
Some foods build our body and make our muscles strong — dal, milk, eggs, peanuts.
Some foods protect us from diseases — carrot, orange, spinach, amla, guava.

gives energy builds the body

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The three jobs that food does for our body, as shown on page 76.

Why it happens: The body needs many different nutrients at the same time. Eating
a variety of foods is the simple way to get them all.

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Tip: The banner at the festival said — “Colours on Plate, Wellness in Life”. More
colours on the plate usually means more kinds of food on it.

Discuss — Page 77
Food Groups

DISCUSS

Q1 What will happen if we eat food from a single group of foods everyday?

Our body will miss the help that the other two groups give. The chapter says food is needed for
the balanced growth of our body.

IF WE EAT ONLY… WHAT WE KEEP WHAT OUR BODY MISSES
GETTING

Energy-giving foods (rice, potato, Energy Muscles do not grow well and we fall ill more
ghee) often

Body-building foods (dal, milk, Growth and strength We feel tired, and we are not protected from
eggs) diseases

Protective foods (fruits, Protection from diseases We have little energy and the body does not
vegetables) grow well

gives energy builds the body

FOOD

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The three jobs that food does for our body, as shown on page 76.

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Why it happens: No single food contains all the nutrients our body needs. One
group alone can do only one of the three jobs, so the other two jobs are left undone.

Tip: The easy test is the plate. If your plate has only one colour and one kind of food,
add something from another group.

Write — Page 78
Say ‘No’ to Junk Food

WRITE

Q1 Can you name a few more junk food items?

The book already names soft drinks, chips, bread pakoda, burgers, pizza and over-processed
packaged food. A few more are:

French fries
Instant noodles
Candy, toffee and lollipops
Packet cakes, pastries and doughnuts
Packaged fruit drinks and cola
Deep-fried namkeen and kurkure-type snacks
Ice-cream from a packet

Why it happens: All of these carry high amounts of oil, salt or sugar and very little of
what the body actually needs. That is what makes a food a junk food.

Check it yourself: Read the packet. If oil, salt or sugar is one of the first ingredients
on the label, the food belongs on this list.

Q2 Why do you think we should avoid eating junk food?

Because junk food is not healthy if we eat it regularly and in large quantities. That is exactly
how the book puts it on page 78.

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A Balanced Food Plate

ACTIVITY

Q1 Create a food diary of your daily routine for a week. Write down what you eat in a
day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. An example is given. Expand the table for a
week.

DAYS TIME FOOD EATEN

DAY 1 Breakfast Idli, Sambhar, Chutney

Lunch

Dinner

DAY 2 Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

The food diary table printed on page 79. Only the first line is filled in as an example.

Copy the table into your notebook and add rows until you have Day 1 to Day 7. Fill it in every
evening, while you still remember.

DAYS TIME FOOD EATEN

DAY 1 Breakfast Idli, Sambhar, Chutney

Lunch

Dinner

DAY 2 Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

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The food diary table printed on page 79. Only the first line is filled in as an example.

Step 1 — Draw three columns: Days, Time, Food eaten.

Step 2 — Give each day three lines: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Step 3 — Write the real food, not the food you wish you had eaten.

Step 4 — Repeat for seven days.

Sample answer (first two days):

DAYS TIME FOOD EATEN

DAY 1 Breakfast Idli, Sambhar, Chutney

Lunch Rice, dal, bhindi, curd

Dinner Roti, palak, one banana

DAY 2 Breakfast Poha with peanuts, a glass of milk

Lunch Roti, rajma, salad

Dinner Khichdi, curd, one orange

Why it happens: A week is long enough to show a habit. One day can be unusual;
seven days show what you really eat.

Tip: Also write down snacks you eat between meals. They are part of the day’s food
too.

Q2 Encircle the food items that are healthy and put an ‘X’ mark for items which are not
healthy.

Go through your diary line by line. Draw a circle around a healthy item and a small X beside an
unhealthy one.

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DAYS TIME FOOD EATEN

DAY 1 Breakfast Idli, Sambhar, Chutney

Lunch

Dinner

DAY 2 Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

The food diary table printed on page 79. Only the first line is filled in as an example.

How to decide:

CIRCLE IT IF… PUT AN X IF…

It is fresh and home-cooked It came out of a packet and was over-processed

It is a fruit, a vegetable, a dal, milk or curd It is mostly oil, salt or sugar

It is a grain or millet dish like roti, rice, upma It is a cold drink or a fried snack

Sample answer on the two days above: circle idli, sambhar, chutney, rice, dal, bhindi, curd, roti,
palak, banana, poha, milk, rajma, salad, khichdi, orange. If a cold drink or a packet of chips
appears anywhere in the week, mark it with an X.

Why it happens: Marking makes the diary easy to read at one glance. The circles
show what is already good; the X marks show what to eat less often.

Tip: Do not feel bad about an X. It is only a note to yourself for the coming week.

Q3 Identify the food groups missing in your daily routine. Discuss with your parents
how these items can be included in the daily routine.

Sort every circled item into the three food groups. The group with the fewest items is the one
missing from your routine.

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DAYS TIME FOOD EATEN

DAY 1 Breakfast Idli, Sambhar, Chutney

Lunch

Dinner

DAY 2 Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

The food diary table printed on page 79. Only the first line is filled in as an example.

FOOD GROUP WHAT I ATE THIS WEEK IS IT ENOUGH?

Energy-giving Rice, roti, poha, khichdi, ghee Yes

Body-building Dal, rajma, curd, milk, peanuts Yes

Protective Bhindi, palak, banana, orange, salad Could be more — only on some days

Sample answer: “Fruits and vegetables were missing on three days. My mother said we can
keep a bowl of fruit on the table, add one green vegetable at dinner, and put salad in my tiffin.”
A balanced plate looks like this:

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ITEM ON THE THALI FOOD GROUP

Dal-baati-churma Energy-giving and body-building

Ker-sangri vegetable Protective

Bajra roti with ghee Energy-giving

Curd (dahi) Body-building

Onion-tomato salad Protective

Mango pickle and papad For taste, in a small quantity

Why it happens: A thali is a whole meal on one plate. Each region uses what grows
there, which is why the thalis of India taste so different from one another.

Did you know? A thali also gives many of the six tastes at once — sweet from the
churma, salty from the dal, pungent from the chilli and sour from the pickle.

Write — Page 81
Different Methods of Cooking

WRITE

Q1 Identify different methods used to cook the food items given in the list below. One
example is given for you. You can take help from your family members and add
more items to the list.

Here is the list and the blank table as the book prints them, and then the completed table.

Idli dosa rice sambhar papad

kheer samosa peda gulab jamun

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METHODS OF COOKING FOOD

Steaming Idiyappam

The list of foods and the blank table printed on page 81.

Boiling Steaming Frying

Roasting Grilling Baking

The six ways of cooking shown in pictures on page 81.

Completed table:

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METHODS OF COOKING FOOD

Steaming Idiyappam, idli

Boiling Rice, sambhar, kheer

Roasting Dosa (on a tawa), papad, peda (the khoya is roasted first)

Frying Samosa, gulab jamun

Grilling Add your own: grilled paneer, grilled corn

Baking Add your own: cake, biscuits, bread

Why it happens: Each method uses heat in a different way — boiling uses hot water,
steaming uses the steam above it, frying uses hot oil, and baking and grilling use dry
hot air or fire.

Check it yourself: Some foods can be cooked in more than one way. Papad can be
roasted or fried, and a dosa can be made with very little oil or with more. Ask at
home how it is done in your kitchen and write that answer.

Tip: No food in the printed list is grilled or baked, so the book asks you to add more
items yourself. That is why the table has empty rows.

Discuss — Page 82
Food that needs no cooking

DISCUSS

Q1 Do you help in cooking at home?

Answer honestly, and name the jobs you actually do. A Class 4 child can do many safe jobs in the
kitchen.

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SAFE JOBS I CAN DO JOBS AN ADULT MUST DO

Wash fruits and vegetables Light the gas stove

Peel a banana, shell peas, pluck coriander Cut with a sharp knife

Knead dough and pat rotis Lift a hot pan or pressure cooker

Mix a salad or a fruit chaat Fry anything in hot oil

Lay the plates and pour water Drain boiling water

Sample answer: “Yes. I wash the vegetables, shell the peas and make the fruit chaat. I also lay
the plates before dinner. I do not go near the stove alone.”

Why it happens: Fruit chaat and vegetable salads need no cooking at all, so those
are the dishes a child can make completely.

Tip: Always wash your hands before you touch food, and tie back long hair in the
kitchen.

Q2 Do you think all family members should know how to cook? Why?

Yes, every member of the family should know how to cook. Here is why.

Then no one goes hungry if the person who usually cooks is ill or away.
The work gets shared instead of falling on one person every day.
Whoever can cook can make fresh home-cooked food, which the book says is better than
packaged food.
A person who cooks learns to choose a balanced meal from all three food groups.
Cooking is a life skill — useful when you study or work away from home.

Sample answer: “Yes. In my family my father makes tea and poha, my mother makes the dal,
and I make the salad. When my mother went to my aunt’s house, we still ate properly because
everyone knew something.”

Why it happens: Cooking is not one person’s job. Food is needed by everybody
every day, so the skill is useful to everybody.

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Q2 Check the label — (a) At home, pick up any one packaged food item from your
kitchen. Check the label and note down the expiry date, and also two main
ingredients.

Take any packet from the kitchen — biscuits, honey, jam, noodles or a milk packet — and read
the small print on it.

HONEY

All Natural · No Sugar Added · Pure and Delicious

Net weight: 400 gram

Packed on: 08.03.2025

Best before: 07.03.2026

The honey label drawn beside the activity on page 83.

Step 1 — Find the line that says Best before or Use by. That is the expiry date.

Step 2 — Find the word ‘Ingredients’. The first names on that list are the main ingredients.

Step 3 — Also look at the net weight and the packing date.

Step 4 — Write it all down in your notebook.

Sample answer:

WHAT I CHECKED WHAT THE PACKET SAID

Name of the item Biscuits

Net weight 200 gram

Packed on 12.06.2025

Expiry date (Best before) 11.12.2025

Two main ingredients Wheat flour and sugar

On the honey label printed in the book, the expiry date is 07.03.2026 and the packet says All
Natural, No Sugar Added.

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Why it happens: The label is the packet’s way of telling us what is inside and until
when it is safe. Nothing else on the packet has to be true in the same way.

Tip: The ingredient written first is the one present in the largest amount. If sugar
comes first, the packet is mostly sugar.

Q3 Check the label — (b) Why is it important to check labels before buying or eating
packaged food items?

Because the label is the only way to know what is inside the packet and how long it stays fit
to eat.

The expiry date tells us if the food is still safe. Food eaten after that date can make us ill.
The ingredients tell us how much oil, salt or sugar the food has — that is how we spot junk
food.
Someone who must not eat a certain thing can check whether it is inside.
The net weight tells us how much we are really getting for the price.
The packing date tells us how fresh the food is.

HONEY

All Natural · No Sugar Added · Pure and Delicious

Net weight: 400 gram

Packed on: 08.03.2025

Best before: 07.03.2026

The honey label drawn beside the activity on page 83.

Sample answer: “I check the label because I want to know the best-before date and the
ingredients. The honey packet in our book was packed on 08.03.2025 and is best before
07.03.2026, so it must be used within that one year.”

Why it happens: Packaged food is made far away and long before we buy it. We
cannot see or smell what has gone into it, so the label has to tell us.

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Check it yourself: Next time you are at a shop, read the best-before date before the
packet goes into the bag.

Q4 Organise a food festival. Students may bring home-made food and organise a food
festival at school. Parents may be encouraged to participate in the food festival.

Plan it the way the school in the chapter did — many stalls, many regions, and a banner with a
healthy message.

Step 1 — Fix a day with your teacher and divide the class into small groups.

Step 2 — Each group chooses one region or one food group for its stall.

Step 3 — Invite parents and ask them to send one home-made dish each.

Step 4 — Make a name board and a price-free menu card for every stall.

Step 5 — Keep water, plates, a dustbin and a hand-washing spot ready.

Step 6 — After the festival, write which dish belonged to which food group.

Sample answer — a plan for six stalls:

STALL NAME WHAT IT SERVES

Super Food Jowar upma, ragi laddu, bajre ki khichdi

Mystery Masala A dish with all six tastes, for a guessing game

North India Litti-chowkha, dal-baati-churma

South India Hot dosa, sambhar, idiyappam

No-Cook Corner Fruit chaat, sprouts and vegetable salad

Water Point Clean drinking water, lemon water, watermelon slices

Why it happens: A food festival lets the whole school see food variety in one place.
Bringing home-made food also shows that fresh home cooking can be exciting.

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Tip: Put up a banner like the one in the chapter — “Eat Right, Stay Healthy” or
“Colours on Plate, Wellness in Life”.

Q5 Find and circle — Circle the words related to food in the grid below. One example is
given below.

K O Q L C I S A B

U E S E B T E P E

P T O M A N G O A

M U I O J L G T N

A Y A N R H O A S

F V S G A O N T R

S W O A T E R O T

N T A M L A V F E

L G T J A U G U W

The letter grid printed on page 84. The example word is already circled in the eighth
column.

Read the grid across each row and down each column. The example already circled is POTATO,
standing in the eighth column.

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K O Q L C I S A B

U E S E B T E P E

P T O M A N G O A

M U I O J L G T N

A Y A N R H O A S

F V S G A O N T R

S W O A T E R O T

N T A M L A V F E

L G T J A U G U W

The same grid with every food word marked.

Why it happens: Every one of these words is a food you met in this chapter —
potato, upma, lemon, bajra, egg, beans, tofu, mango, amla and jau all appear in the
food-group lists or in the millet stall.

Note on the book: Row 7 of the printed grid reads S W O A T E R O T. The word
WATER was clearly meant to be hidden there, but an extra O has come in between
the W and the A, so it reads ‘WOATER’. Read the row as it is printed and mark OAT
instead. Do not change the grid in your book — just note the misprint.

Chapter at a glance
The school food festival had stalls of dhokla, litti-chowkha, dal-baati-churma, bajre-ki-
khichdi, chhena-poda, ker-sangri, siddu, jowar upma, ragi laddu and much more.
Ugadi Pachadi, made at the ‘Mystery Masala’ stall, has all six tastes — sweet, sour, salty,
pungent, bitter and astringent. Ayurveda calls them shad rasa.
Millets such as jowar, bajra, ragi and jau are rich in nutrients, so the millet stall was called
‘Super Food’.
Food does three jobs — it gives energy, it builds the body, and it protects us from diseases.
No single food does all three, so we eat many kinds.

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A balanced plate has the most fruits and vegetables, then body-building foods, then some
energy-giving foods. Water is part of our diet too.
Food is cooked by boiling, steaming, frying, roasting, grilling and baking; fruit chaat and
salads need no cooking at all.

Quick revision

WORD WHAT IT MEANS EXAMPLES FROM THE PAGE
CHAPTER

Six tastes (shad The six tastes of food named in Ayurveda sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, 73–74
rasa) astringent

Ugadi Pachadi A traditional food of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka Served at the ‘Mystery Masala’ 73
and Telengana with all six tastes stall

Millets Grains that are rich sources of nutrients jowar, bajra, ragi, jau 74

Energy-giving Foods that give our body energy rice, potato, wheat, banana, 77
foods honey, ghee, oil

Body-building Foods that help us grow and build muscles pulses, soybeans, milk, cheese, 77
foods almonds, eggs, fish

Protective Foods that help us fight and keep away diseases carrot, orange, lemon, spinach, 77
foods amla, guava, tomato

Junk food Food with very high oil, salt or sugar, not healthy soft drinks, chips, bread pakoda, 78
if eaten often burgers, pizza

Balanced food A plate with the right amounts from all three food Fruits and vegetables the most 79
plate groups

Thali A regional plate that holds many food items Every region of India has its own 80
together

Methods of The different ways in which food is cooked boiling, steaming, frying, 81
cooking roasting, grilling, baking

Chef A professional cook skilled in all parts of food ‘Chef’ is French for head of the 82
preparation kitchen

Solar cooker A cooker that uses sunlight instead of fire or It makes no smoke and no ash 82
electricity

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