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Anushka does not like to take green leafy vegetables and fruit in her diet. After a time, her body will be in a deficit of which vitamin? Write the consequences of the same.
Study the given table and answer the following question.
| Food | Energy (KJ per 100 g) |
Protein (%) |
Fat (%) |
Carbohydrate (%) |
Fibre (%) |
Iron (mg per 100 g) |
Vitamin C (mg per 100 g) |
| Milk | 272 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 0 | 0.1 | 2 |
| Sausage | 1520 | 10.6 | 32.1 | 9.5 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 |
| Chicken | 599 | 26.5 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Cabbage | 66 | 1.7 | 0 | 2.3 | 54 | 0.4 | 23 |
| Watercress | 61 | 2.9 | 0 | 0.7 | 25 | 1.6 | 60 |
| Apple | 196 | 0.3 | 0 | 11.9 | 20 | 0.3 | 5 |
Why do you need protein and carbohydrates?
Name the different vitamins with their sources, functions and deficiency diseases.
Which of the components of food are present in the pictures given below:
Rajesh has been diagnosed with obesity and anaemia. He is advised by the doctor to avoid fats and increase the iron content in his diet. Rajesh needs to test for these food components before consuming.
Can you help him in testing the following food products :
Milk
Match the statements that suit the nutrients correctly.
| Nutrients | Food Materials |
| 1. Carbohydrates | a. fenugreek (menthya), carrot, sprouted seeds, fish oil, green-yellow vegetables. |
| 2. Lipid | b. ragi, wheat, jowar, foxtail millets, little millets, bread, honey. |
| 3. Protein | c. groundnut, meat, fish, dry coconut, sesame, egg yolk. |
| 4. Vitamin | d. vegetables, fruits, lemon, cereals. |
| 5. Minerals | e. cucumber, watermelon, grapes, radish, ash gourd, brinjal, cabbage, cauliflower. |
| 6. Water | f. cow beans, red gram, black-eyed beans, milk, green gram, soybean. |
Which of the components of food are present in the pictures given below:
Fun Time.
Names of three diseases caused by vitamin deficiency are hidden in the following maze. Can you find them? (Hint: The hidden words can appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally; forwards or backwards.)
