NCERT Class 5 EVS Mangoes Round the Year

4. Mangoes Round the Year

Wow! Aman’s lunch box has sweet puries.

Hey, today Nitu has brought potato sabzi.

I have got bhindi.

Oh! Nitu, I think your potato sabzi is spoilt.

Don’t eat that. You may fall sick. Here, you take some bhindi.

Discuss

• How did Aman know that the potato sabzi had got spoilt?
• Have you ever seen some food that has got spoilt?How did you know that it was spoiled?
• Preeti told Nitu not to eat the potato sabzi. What would have happened if she had eaten it?

Write

• Look in your kitchen and write down names of food items that

                     - can get spoilt in 2-3 days

                     - can be kept for a week

                     - would not spoil till one month

• Look at your friend’s list and discuss in the class.
• Will your list be the same in all seasons? What would change?
• When food gets spoilt in your house, what do you do with it?

Biji returned the bread

Aman’s Biji went to the market to buy bread. The shop was very crowded. The shopkeeper picked up a packet of bread and gave it to Biji. She looked at it and returned it immediately.

• Look at the picture of the bread packet here and guess why Biji returned it? How did she find that the bread had got spoilt?

Find out

Look carefully at two-three packets of food items:

• What can we know from what is written on the packet?
• When you buy anything from the market, what do you
• look for on the packet?

Please refer to attached file for NCERT Class 5 EVS Mangoes Round the Year