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Salma’s food basket
The following slides show typical
foods eaten in Zanzibar
Eating on a tropical island
• Coconuts, rice, cassava, sweet potatoes, bananas, plantains, yams, spices.
• Fruits such as mangoes, pineapples, oranges, jackfruits, and many more
are available but due to seasonal shortages and high demand they are
imported from the mainland.
• Vegetables are mostly imported from the mainland but a number of green
leafy vegetables are produced locally.
• Fishing is by traditional methods. Fish is the most important source of
animal protein.
• Rice is the staple food but most is imported
• The high use of sugar in the form of sweets, table sugar and soft drinks is
a major contributory factor in tooth decay, obesity and other illnesses.
What fruit is growing on this tree?
This is a papaya
tree
Have you eaten
papaya?
Would you be able
to buy papaya in
your local
supermarket?
Can you name
any other
tropical fruits?
What do you think this woman is doing?
This woman is
grinding millet to
make porridge
What is your
porridge made
from?
Can you describe
how the woman is
grinding the millet
seeds?
What is she using?
What do you think these young men are doing?
They are pressing the
juice out of sugar cane
to make a drink which
they will sell to local
people and tourists
Look at the waste
sugar cane, what could
this be used for?
Fruits in the market place
Can you name the
fruits in the
photograph?
The fruits are:
Bananas
Passion fruit
Lemons
Oranges
Water melon
Did you know that
you can get purple
bananas!
Drinks
Name the drinks
on this table?
This photograph was
taken in Zanzibar.
People drink tea and
water and lots of
fizzy drinks. There is
a factory in Zanzibar
which makes Fanta.
Are fizzy drinks good
for you?
Was this
photograph taken
in Wales or
Zanzibar? Explain
your answer.
What other foods
are shown in the
photograph?
What is this grain?
This grain is rice.
Rice is a staple
food, what
does that
mean?
A staple food is
one that we eat
nearly every day.
Give an
example of a
staple food we
eat in Wales.
Can you name these foods?
Cassava
Cloves
Coconut
Cinnamon, vanilla
cardoman,
Sweet potato
Did you know that
Zanzibar is also called the
Spice Islands? The
growing of spices is a
major industry; pepper
and nutmeg is also grown
and exported.
Shopping for Salma
Activity:
You are going to shop for Salma. The food you put in her
basket will be the food that she normally eats and can buy in
Zanzibar.
You need to know that Salma cannot afford to eat meat or fish
very often but she can afford to buy some eggs.
Can you put together a healthy food basket for Salma?