Lesson 4, MANGOES ROUND THE YEAR

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1. Mango is a seasonal fruit .

2. Mamidi tandra is also known as aam papad .

3. Glass jars are dried well in the sun before filling pickle in it .

4. The living thing which we find on the bread is fungus.

Answer the following questions.

Q1. How can you know that the food is spoilt?

Ans. By seeing the colour and smell we can know that the food is spoilt.

Q2. What will happen if we eat the spoilt food?

Ans. Spoilt food can harm our health and we may fall sick.

Q3. Write two names for the food items that

a) can get spoil within 2 or 3 days.

Coriander, spinach, tomato

b) can be kept for a week.

Potato ,carrot, beetroot

c) would not spoil till one month.

Onion ,ginger ,garlic

Q4. How can you find that the bread is spoilt?

Ans. By seeing the colour and texture (surface).

Q5. When you buy things from the market what do you look for on the packet?

Ans. We look for MFG date( date of manufacturing or packing) and EXP date (date of expiry), when we
buy the things from the market.

Q6. List some ways to protect or prevent the food items from getting spoil?
Ans. Some ways of preserving food are

1.Sweetening

2. salting

3.making pickle

4.drying

5. freezing

6. refrigeration

7.boiling

Q7. Name the things that are needed to make mamidi tandra.

Ans. Things needed to make mamidi tandra

juicy ripe mangoes ,sugar and jaggery ,muslin cloth ,palm leaves ,poles of casuarina

Q8. Glass jars and bottles are dried well in the sun before filling them with pickles .why?

Ans. 1.Glass jars and bottles are dried well in the sun before filling them with pickle to take away
moisture from them..

2. If it is not dried well the moisture in the bottle will spoil the pickle.

3. This moisture helps the germs or fungus to grow which spoils the pickle.