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Eat your Fruits and Veggies

Using the Across and Down clues, write the correct words in the numbered grid below.

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ACROSS
1. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels
on large ears.
6. A vegetable with a green skin and a white
watery flesh that's used to make pickles.
7. a very large gourd fruit, very popular in
the summer
8. A plant part of the legumes family that is
grown for hay or forage.
9. These highly nutritious seeded pods of
various legumes are among the oldest
foods known to humanity.
11. A plant with small white flowers and long
green pods containing edible green
seeds.
13. this is very popular at the movie
theaters, when you pop it
17. A common ingredient for pies
18. A plant having a large edible head of
crowded white flower buds.
20. A very starchy root vegetable.
21. A leafy green vegetable that will make
you strong like Popeye.
24. Yellow citrus fruit, commonly made into
a drink for the summer
26. these come in bunches, they can be
green, red or purple
27. The fastest growing of the summer
fruits. Also known as the green Italian
28. squash,
the number one export from Hawaii
29. This underground bulb is related to
leeks, garlic, and chives and is known
for its distinct, pungent and aroma.
DOWN
2. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten
cooked and sweetened.
3. A long yellow fruit, which you commonly
see on ice cream sundaes.
4. A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or
blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp
enclosing a single large seed.
5. A leafy green vegetable (some varieties
have red/purple leaves).
10. A member of the lily family, the earliest
stalks are an apple-green with
purple-tinged tips.
12. Mediterranean thistle-like plant widely
cultivated for its large edible flower
13. head.
small red fruit
14. A type of dark, root vegetable with a hot,
sharp taste.
15. A vegetable with a light green stalk and
leafy top.
16. Sweet potato with deep orange flesh
that remains moist when baked.
19. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants
of the genus Capsicum.
22. Usually large pulpy deep-yellow round
fruit of the squash family maturing in late
summer or early autumn.
23. An orange root vegetable.
25. the color and the name match

ARTICHOKE CABBAGE SPINACH PINEAPPLE

CAULIFLOWER BEANS YAM PUMPKIN
RADISH APPLE PEPPER LEMON
ORANGE CHERRY ASPARAGUS PEA
WATERMELON ALFALFA ZUCCHINI CORN
POTATO CORN BANANA AVOCADO
GRAPES CUCUMBER RHUBARB ONION
CARROT CELERY