FOOD: A HEALTHY DIET

Food gives the body energy. It is important to eat food from each of the five groups.

Look at the chart and talk about the questions.

• How many food groups are there?
• What food is in each group?

Fish and seafood

Fish live in water and people use nets and fishing rods to catch them. Most fish live wild in rivers, lakes and the sea. There are lots of other things from the sea that we can eat. Some fish that we eat come from fish farms. There are many different types of fish.

Fruit and vegetables

Fruit and vegetables are healthy foods. Fruit and vegetables are plants. 

Some fruit grow on trees and some fruit grow on vines. 

Fruits have skins. Some fruits have to be peeled before eating.

Some fruits have large stones which cannot be eaten.

Vegetables are plants. We eat different parts of vegetable plants.

Carrots, radishes, turnip and potatoes are root vegetables.

Onion and garlic are bulb vegetables.

Spinach and pak choi are leaf vegetables.

Aparagus and celery are stem vegetables.

Dairy and eggs

Dairy food contain milk. Most milk comes from cows. The cow go to milking shed each day so the farmer can milk them. A truck called a milk tanker takes the milk from the farm to a place called a dairy. At the dairy, the milk is heated to kill germs. Then it is put into bottles or cartons to be sold.

Different kinds of food are made from milk. 

Cheese can also be made from goat's or sheep's milk.

Ice cream is made from milk, cream, sugar and flavouring. Draw a picture of a new ice cream that you would like. Make a list of the ingredients that you would need to make your ice cream.

Most eggs that we eat come from hens. Farmers collect the eggs and put them in boxes to sell.

Bread and cereals

Bread is made mostly of flour. Flour is usually made from a kind of grass called wheat. Farmers grow wheat in field. People eat bread in countries around the world. 

People can make sandwiches with bread.You can put lots of different foods in sandwiches.

People eat rice in countries all around the world. Rice grows best in shallow water, in warm places. Rice fields are known as paddy fields. Farmers stand in the water to cut down rice plants, so they can collect the grains. Rice can also be harvested by machines.