NCERT Solutions Class 3 The World Around Us Chapter 8 Food We Eat

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CLASS 3 · THE WORLD AROUND US

NCERT Solutions

Chapter 8: Food We
Eat

NCERT Textbook — Our Wondrous World

BOOK PAGES SECTIONS QUESTIONS MEDIUM

100 – 108 18 30 English

Every question Step by step Exam ready
Activities, in-text questions The working shown, not Written to match how
and all exercises. just the final answer. marks are awarded.

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C L A SS 3 · T HE WORL D A ROUN D US · OUR WON D ROUS WORL D
NCERT So ut ons — C apt r 8: Foo W Eat
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Chapter 8 of Our Wondrous World is in Unit 3, G ts o Natur . It is all about the food we eat. You draw your
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favourite homemade food, read the story of S r n t runn r, and learn why we eat many kinds of food.
hi i he e

Then you find out which foods and drinks come in summer and winter, which parts of plants we eat, and
what we get from animals.

T E XT B OOK B OOK PAGE S
Our Wondrous World Class 3 100  108

S EC T I ONS QU E ST I ONS
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Draw — Page 100
My Favour t Foo i e d

DRAW

Q1 Draw p tur s o your avour t
ic e f f i e homem ade food dishes and name them.

Sample answer: I drew three dishes and wrote their names.
 Dal and rice in a bowl
 Roti on a plate
 Kheer in a small bowl
Your drawing will be different. That is fine.

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Tip: Think of the food cooked at home that you like best. Draw two or three
dishes in the box, colour them and write the name under each picture.

Why Each family cooks its own dishes So each child has a different favourite
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Activity 1 — Page 101
My Favour t Foo i e d

ACTIVITY

Q1 Share your reasons for why you like the food items you have drawn.

Sample answer: I like dal and rice. It is warm and tasty. My grandmother makes it for lunch. I
like kheer because it is sweet. We make it on festivals.

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Tip: Say one reason for each dish you drew. Think of its taste — sweet, sour,
spicy, salty or bitter. Think of who makes it and when you eat it. Tell your class
in one or two sentences.

Why We like a food for its taste We also like it because of the people and days
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it reminds us of.

In-text Questions — Page 101
W a e ll like to eat and drink

Q1 Hav you won
e dered why we e at and drink?

We eat and drink to keep our body strong and healthy.
 Food gives us energy to run, play and work.
 Food helps us grow and stay well.
 Our body needs a lot of water. We cannot live without water.

Find out — Page 101

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My Favour t Foo i e d

FIND OUT

Q1 Talk to the elders in your family and discuss in the class: Why do we need to eat and
drink?

We eat and drink so that our body gets energy, grows and stays healthy.
Sample answer: My grandmother said, “Food gives you strength to play and study.ˮ My father
said, “Water keeps the body going. In summer we need more.ˮ

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Tip: Ask your parents or grandparents this question at home. Write down two or
three things they say. Share them in class and listen to what others found.

Why A body without food gets tired A body without water cannot live
: . .

Discuss — Page 103
Story o S r n — t Runn r
f hi i he e

DISCUSS

Q1 Why do we need to eat healthy food?

H a t y oo ma
e l h f d s our o y stron an u o n r y We do not fall sick often
ke b d g d f ll f e e g . .

 Shirin ate only rice and potatoes. She often fell sick.
 Then she ate many kinds of food cooked at home.
 She felt energetic, ran faster and won a medal.

Activity 2 — Page 103

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Q2 Which foods above do you think should be part of a balanced diet?
The foods on page 103 vegetables, salads, fruits, sweets, rice, dal, roti, milk, snacks,
lassi, juice and paneer.)

Many of them, eaten together:
 Vegetables, salads and fruits
 Rice and roti (made from grains)
 Dal
 Milk, lassi and paneer
A balanced diet is a mix of many kinds of food, not just one or two.

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The champion told Shirin the same thing: eat vegetables, fruits, grains, dal and nuts.

Why One or two foods cannot give the body everything A mix of foods can
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Tip: Sweets, snacks and juice are foods we enjoy too. Eat them only a little.
What matters most is the mix — not the same one or two things every day.

Find out — Page 104

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e r nt Things
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FIND OUT

Q1 Make a list of fruits and vegetables available and special food items that are prepared
in the summer and in the winter.

SUMMER WINTER

Sample answer:

SUMMER WINTER

Mangoes Apples

Melons Oranges

Cucumber Carrots, peas and radish

Kulfi or ice-cream Soups and stew

Tender coconut water, buttermilk, nimbu pani, aam panna, sugarcane juice Warm food and hot drinks

A dd the fruits and vegetables sold near your home in each season.

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Tip: Visit a fruit and vegetable shop with an elder. Ask which fruits and
vegetables come in summer and which in winter. Ask the elders at home what
they cook in each season. Mangoes, melons, apples, kulfi, soups, stew and the
summer drinks are named in the book on pages 104105.

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Why Different fruits and vegetables grow in different seasons So what we eat
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changes with the weather.

In-text Questions — Page 104
W Eat D
e r nt Things
iffe e

Q1 Ar t e here some dishes th at you have heard about but have not tasted yet?

Sample answer: Yes. I have heard about dhokla from Gujarat and appam from Kerala. I have
not tast ed them yet.

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Tip: Think of dishes you know only by name. Remember dishes you heard
about from friends or family, or saw on a trip or in a book. Name the ones you
have not tasted yet.

Why People in different parts of our country eat a variety of delicious foods
: .

We cannot taste them all at once.

Q2 F n out t
i d ames of these foods and discuss them with your friends.
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Ask family and friends who have travelled, or who live in another part of the country. Write
each food and who told you.
Sample answer:

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FOOD WHO TOLD ME

Dhokla My uncle after a trip to Gujarat
,

Litti chokha My friend s grandmother in Bihar
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Momos My cousin who lives in Sikkim
,

Why Each place has its own dishes Talking to others helps us learn about them
: . .

In-text Questions — Page 105
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e r nt Things
iffe e

Q1 Name these drinks in your language.

Tender Coconut Mango Juice Aam Panna Orange Juice Lime Water
Water

The five drinks on page 105, with the names the book prints.

As k the elders at home what they call each drink. Write the names in your home language.
Sample answer (in Hindi):

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Tip: The Puzzle Time on page 107 asks about two common ingredients that
come from neither plants nor animals.

Find out — Page 105
W r he e d oes food come from?
FIND OUT

Q1 Do you now w
k hich foods are grown in the fields? Write a few names of such crops.

Many foods grow in fields. Some are:
 Grains: rice, wheat, ragi, jowar and bajra
 Pulses: dal
 Vegetables: potatoes, onion, carrot, radish, spinach
 Sugarcane
As k a farmer or an elder which crops grow near your home.

Why Farmers sow seeds in the fields The plants grow and give us food
: . .

Q2 D s uss an wr t
i c d i e down in wh at form some of these foods are cooked.

As k the elders at home how each crop reaches our plate.
Sample answer:

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CROP HOW WE EAT IT

Rice Cooked rice, kheer

Wheat Roti

Pulses Dal

Potatoes Vegetable dish (sabzi)

Sugarcane Sugarcane juice, sugar

Why Most crops are cooked before we eat them One crop can be made into many
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dishes.

In-text Questions — Pages 106–107
W at e e diffe e r nt parts of plants

Q1 We eat different parts of plants. Some examples are given below. Put a tick (✔) against
the items that you eat.

PART OF THE PUT A TICK (✔) AGAINST THE ITEMS THAT YOU EAT
PLANT

Leaves ☐ Spinach (Palak) ☐ Fenugreek (Methi) ☐ Cabbage ☐ Mustard
☐ Coriander (Dhaniya)

Fruits ☐ Guava ☐ Sapota ☐ Apple ☐ Mango

Roots ☐ Carrot ☐ Radish ☐ Beetroot

Stems ☐ Potatoes ☐ Bamboo shoots ☐ Ginger ☐ Onion

Seeds ☐ Grains ☐ Pulses ☐ Dry fruits

Tick (✔) the foods you eat. Leave the others blank.
Sample answer: (one childʼs ticks)

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PART OF THE PUT A TICK (✔) AGAINST THE ITEMS THAT YOU EAT
PLANT

Leaves S a
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Fruits ☑ Gu v a a ☐ Sapota ☑ Apple ☑ Mango
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Stems P a a
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The fact to keep: we eat roots st ms
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Why Each part of a plant can be food A carrot is a root Spinach is leaves Dal is
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seeds.

Puzzle Time — Page 107
Food from plants and animals
PUZZLE TIME

Q1 Two of our most commonly used ingredients are neither obtained from plants nor from
animals. Name at least one of these ingredients.

Salt and water.
 Salt goes into almost everything we cook.
 Water is used to cook rice, dal and many other dishes.

Why Salt and water are not living things They are not grown as plants and they
: . ,

are not taken from animals.

In-text Questions — Page 107

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Q1 Would you share your food with your friend if your friend does not bring lunch?

Yes, I would share my food.
Sample answer: Yes. My friend would be hungry without lunch. I would give my friend one of
my rot s ani d some sabzi. We would eat together.

Why Sharing food is caring A friend would do the same for us
: . .

Let us reflect — Page 108
A. Discuss
LET US REFLECT DISCUSS

Q1 Why do we need different kinds of food?

No single food gives the body everything it needs.
 Shirin ate only rice and potatoes. She often fell sick.
 Then she ate vegetables, fruits, grains, dal and nuts too.
 She became energetic and healthy.

Why Each kind of food helps the body in its own way Together they keep us
: .

strong.

Q2 Why do we eat seasonal foods?

Ea s ason v s us
ch e gi e r nt oo an our o y n s
diffe e f d, d b d eed r nt t n s n ot an o
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w at r
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 Mangoes and melons come in summer. Apples come in winter.
 In summer we sweat, so we drink more water, buttermilk and nimbu pani.
 In winter we enjoy warm food, soups and hot drinks.

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 Take only as much as you can eat. Ask for more later.
 Finish the food on your plate.
 Cover leftover food and eat it at the next meal.
 Share extra food with friends and neighbours.

Why Most food is wasted when we take too much
: .

Let us reflect — Page 108
B. Write
LET US REFLECT WR TI E

Q1 List the fruits and vegetables eaten in your family.

Look in your kitchen and ask the elders. Write two lists.
Sample answer:

FRUITS VEGETABLES

Mango Potato

Guava Spinach

Apple Carrot

Sapota Cabbage

Why Each family eats different fruits and vegetables It depends on the place and
: .

the season.

Q2 Write the recipe of your favourite dish.

Sample answer: Sweet lassi
You need: 1 cup curd, 2 spoons sugar, half a cup of water.
Steps:

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 Put the curd in a big bowl.
 Add the sugar and water.
 Stir or churn it until it is smooth.
 Pour it into a glass.

Tip: Cook only with an elder beside you.

Q3 Write a name of a food item that includes both plant and animal based ingredients. For
example, lassi includes yogurt/curd which is prepared from milk (animal based

ingredient) and sugar which is prepared from sugarcane (a plant based ingredient).

Kheer.
 Milk — an animal based ingredient.
 Rice — a plant based ingredient. It is a grain.
 Sugar — a plant based ingredient. It is made from sugarcane.
Other examples: paneer with a vegetable, or curd with rice.

Let us reflect — Page 108
C. Draw

LET US REFLECT D RW
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Q1 Draw t rh ee pl ates or thalis with various food items in your notebook.

Sample answer: I drew three round thalis. In each one I drew roti, dal, rice and some fruit.
Draw three big circles in your notebook. Leave space above each plate for its name.

Why Three plates let you show three different meals
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Q2 In t hese pl ates draw and label food items that you eat in the morning, afternoon and at
night.

orn n
Write M i g, Af e t rnoon and N t above the three plates
igh . Dr aw and name the food you eat
at each time.
Sample answer:

Morn n i g A t rnoon
f e Nigh t

M R ice
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tables
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i h f d f he i g, f e d igh .

Why We eat different things at different times of the day Together they make our
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dayʼs food.

Let us reflect — Page 108
D. Eating together
LET US REFLECT EA T N TO T R
I G GE HE

Q1 Br n any ru t to t
i g f i he cl ass. Prepare a fruit chaat or salad with the help of your teacher.
Share it with your friends.

Sample answer (what we did): Each of us brought one fruit. We washed our hands and the
fruits. Our teacher cut them into small pieces. We mixed them in a bowl and shared the chaat.

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Why Each friend adds a different fruit So the bowl gets many kinds of fruit
: . .

Let us reflect — Page 108
E. Think
LET US REFLECT THINK

Q1 Ima n you su
gi e ddenly h ave a guest visiting your home. What kind of food would you
serve them and why?

Sample answer: I would first give our guest water. It is summer, so I would make nimbu pani.
Then we would serve the dal, rice and roti cooked at home. A guest should feel welcome.

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Tip: Think of what is ready at home, and what the weather is like. First offer a
glass of water. Then a drink — nimbu pani in summer, a hot drink in winter.
Then share the food already cooked at home.

Why We serve guests the best we have to honour them Chhappan bhog is
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also made to honour guests.

Chapter at a glance
W a to at an r n
e ll like e d d i r nt t n s Some foods are sweet some sour some spicy
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and some bitter. We eat fruits, vegetables, rice, dal and roti. We drink milk, lassi or juice.
n t s m ny n s o oo
A bala ced die ha a ki d f f d. Shirin ate only rice and potatoes and often fell
sick. The champion told her to eat vegetables, fruits, grains, dal and nuts. Soon she ran

faster and won a medal.
oo oo t om s w ys oo to t
F d c ked a h e i al a g d ea , says the champion. Chhappan bhog is
special food of 56 items, made on festivals for guests, friends and family.

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We ea diffe e hi g i diffe e ear nt t n s n r nt s sons
. We get mangoes and melons in summer and

plenty of apples in winter. In summer we sweat and lose water, so we drink more. In winter

we enjoy warm food and hot drinks.

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Our body needs a lot of water. We cannot live without water. That is why we say, ‘m
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