Transcript MG Food M1&M3 Vegetable pictures

Module 1. Thinking about edible plants
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Module 3. Profiling a Vegetable
Vegetable Variety
• Vegetables come in all
shapes, sizes, flavours
textures and colours.
• We eat different parts of
plants.
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Roots
Some vegetables are biennial plants.
Carrot
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Turnip
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We eat the root which is the plants
food store from which it grows a flower
and seeds the next year.
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Beetroot
Parsnip
Stems
We eat the stems of plants like celery and fennel.
Asparagus is a stem and tender shoot.
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Fennel
Celery
Asparagus
Leaves
The leaves of cabbage, lettuce, spinach and rocket
can be eaten raw and cooked.
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Cabbage
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Lettuce
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Rocket
Flowers
Broccoli and cauliflower are flowers that have
not yet opened.
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Cauliflower
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Broccoli
Fruits
Tomatoes, aubergines and peppers are the fruits of
plants. If you cut them open you can
see the seeds inside.
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Tomatoes
Aubergines
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Sweet peppers
Seeds
We can eat the seeds and pods of runner beans,
French beans, peas and broad beans.
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French beans
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Peas
Broad beans
Oddities
 Potato fruit 
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Some plant parts are
poisonous.
 Potato fruits  look like
tomatoes but we cannot
eat them.
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We can eat the tubers
that are the swollen
underground stems of
the potato plant.
Onions
Onions are bulbs. They are the swollen part of the leaf that
stores food ready for the plant to grow and flower. We eat them
before they flower. Leeks and spring onions are in the onion
family.
Onion
Leek
Red onion
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Spring
onion
Plants as Food
Not all plants are edible.
Some that we eat, vegetables, have been grown for
thousands of years.
If you see a plant that you think might be a
vegetable check with an adult before you eat it.
Wash vegetables well, they may have soil on them.
Enjoy Eating Vegetables
Vegetables help to keep
us healthy by providing
our bodies with vitamins,
minerals and fibre.
Enjoy eating them!
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Look at their different
shapes, colours, flavours
and textures – investigate.