NCERT Solutions for Class 4th The World Around Us Chapter 6 Food items and ingredients — Activity 1

Book page 85 Updated on2026-09-19

Q1.
Connect the food items shown below with the ingredients used to make them.
Food itemsIngredientsFood items
A blue bowl full of a yellow flattened-rice dish with green bits in itA heap of peanuts
A brown root cut open, white inside (tapioca)
A black pot of a yellow curry with a red chilli floating in it
A plate of small golden fried piecesA heap of chana (gram)
A heap of thin white rice flakes
A blue bowl heaped with round brown laddoos
A plate with two soft white steamed cakesA heap of green peas
A knobby brown root (ginger)
A plate with a pale mound of cooked food with red and green bits on it
A plate with three triangular fried samosasA heap of golden wheat grains
Two green pea pods, one of them open
A plate with two puffed round breads
The pictures of Activity 1 on page 85. The book prints no names beside them.
Answer

Look at each dish and ask one question: which grain, pulse or root is this made from? Then draw a line from that dish to the ingredient.

These pairs are easy to see:

  • The bowl of the yellow flattened-rice dish → the white rice flakes (poha).
  • The plate with two puffed round breads → the wheat grains.
  • The plate with the pale mound → the brown root cut open. Sabudana is made from this root.
  • The plate of small golden fried pieces → the peanuts.
  • The bowl of round brown laddoos → the chana, because laddoos are made from gram flour.
  • The plate of samosas → the green peas, which are filled inside them.
Note: The book prints no names beside these pictures. So for the last two or three — the two white steamed cakes, the yellow curry in the black pot, the ginger root and the pea pods — your teacher may accept another matching. Write the name of the dish as your family calls it.
Why: Every cooked dish begins as a grain, a pulse, a vegetable or a root grown on a farm. Cooking only changes its shape and its taste.
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