Plants give us vegetables, fruits, cereals and pulses. Plants also give us coffee, tea, sugar, oil and spices. We get food from different parts of plants. We eat roots, leaves, stems, flowers and fruits of plants.
Beetroot
Spinach
Turnip
Cauliflower
Potato
Ginger
Broccoli and cauliflower are some of the flowers that we eat as vegetables.
Flowers as Food
Broccoli
We get fruits from plants. Fruits are of many kinds. Some fruits are juicy and fleshy. Some of the fruits that we eat are orange, mango, apple, grapes, etc.
Flowers as Food
Mango
OrangeGrape
RiceWheat
Gram
Peas
Coffee Plant
Tea plantSugarcane
We get oil from some plants. The seeds of some plants are used for making oil. Some of the plants that give us oils are castor, sunflower, mustard and coconut.
Oil is used for many purposes like cooking, oiling the hairs etc.
Oil giving Plants
CastorMustard
Some plants give us dry fruits. Some of the dry fruits are cashewnut, groundnut, walnut, almond etc.
Dry Fruits
CashewnutGroundnut
Plants also give us spices. cinnamon, cardamom, clove, pepper, turmeric, ginger, cumin seeds and pepper are some of the plants that give us spices.
Spices
Cinnamon
Cardamom
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