Mangoes Round the Year - 2 Class 5 Worksheet EVS Chapter 4

Q1: Fill in the blanks

(packaging, unripe, fungus, smell, aampapad, ripe, taste, preserved)
(i) By its ____________ and ____________, we can identify the spoiled food.
(ii) Food can be __________________ to keep it safe for long time.
(iii) Every packed food item has date of ___________________ on it.
(iv) Spoiled bread has _____________ on it.
(v) Mamidi tandra is also known as __________________.
(vi) Mangoes can be eaten ______________ as well as _______________.
Ans:
(i) taste, smell
(ii) preserved
(iii) packaging
(iv) fungus
(v) aampapad
(vi) ripe, unripe

Q2: What can be made from the given food items to preserve them?

(i)  Mango ___________
(ii) Peanut ___________
(iii) Lemon ___________
(iv) Pulses ___________
(v) Milk _____________
(vi) Potato _____________
(vii) Tomato ____________
(viii) Apple ____________
Ans:
(i) Pickle
(ii) Chikky
(iii) Pickle
(iv) Badiyan
(v) Paneer
(vi) Chips
(vii) Sauce
(viii) Murabba

Q3: Answer the following questions

(i) What information on the food package you should see before buying it?
Ans: We must see the date of packaging, date of expiry and weight, etc.

(ii) How can you preserve fruits and vegetables?
Ans:

• We can preserve fruits and vegetables:
  By keeping them in  refrigerators.
  By making pickles, jams, papads and chutneys.

(iii) What are the different methods of food preservation?
Ans: Following are the methods of food preservation:

• Fermentation
• Drying
• Freezing
• Preserving in salt and sugar or vinegar
• Boiling

(iv) In which state is Atreyapuram district?
Ans: Andhra Pradesh.

(v) Define food preservation? Why is it done?
Ans: Food preservation is a method used to prevent food from spoiling. It saves our food for longer time. 

(vi) Why are the glass jars and bottles dried well in the sun before filling them with pickle?
Ans:  The glass jars and bottles are dried well to remove any moisture present in them because moisture leads to the growth of fungus and spoils the food.

(vii) Name the things that are needed to make Mamidi tandra.
Ans: To make mamidi tandra, first they bought a mat woven from the leaves of a palm tree, poles of casuarina tree, string made of coconut husk, some jiggery and sugar.

(viii) How do you come to know that the food got spoiled?
Ans: When a portion of food spoils, it smells bad and its colour also changes. 

(ix) What items do you preserve in a refrigerator?
Ans: Germs cannot grow under low temperature. That is why fruits, vegetables and milk are kept in refrigerator.

(x) What is food preservation? (or) How can you preserve the food?
Ans: Food preservation is the process of treating and handling food to stop or slow down Food spoilage, loss of quality, edibility, or nutritional value and thus allow for longer food storage.

(xi) Name any two food items that do not get spoil for months.
Ans: Food items that would not spoil till one month are flour and pickles.