10th July 2020
1. Has anyone at home told you to eat slowly and to chew well so that the food digests properly? Why do you think they say this?
Answer:
Yes, our parents advice us always to eat slowly and to chew well so that the food digests properly.
By chewing we break down larger food parts into smaller parts which will help us to:
(i) Moistening the food for swallowing easily
(ii) Initiates the process of digestion in the mouth
2. Imagine you are eating something hard like a green guava. What kinds of changes take place in it – from the time you bite a piece and put it in your mouth to when you swallow it? Think what does the saliva in our mouth do?
Answer:
When we bite stuff such as the green guava, we take in a small piece of that food item in our mouth. Within the mouth it starts mixing with the saliva. Once we start chewing it, it gets mixed up with the saliva. In this manner, the process of digestion begins in the mouth. Because of this saliva mixed with the food substance, it is easy to swallow.
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1. Jhoolan’s mouth started watering when she heard the word imli. When does your mouth water? List five things you like to eat and describe their taste.
Answer: Our mouth waters on seeing, smelling, hearing or even thinking of the food items I like to eat.
Five things that I like to eat and their respective tastes are:
|
Sl. No. |
Food |
Taste |
|
1. |
Pickle |
Sour |
|
2. |
Ice cream |
Sweet |
|
3. |
Potato chips |
Salty |
|
4. |
Chocolates |
Sweet |
|
5. |
Mango |
Sweet |
2. Do you like only one kind of taste or different ones? Why?
Answer: We like different kinds of tastes we will get bored to taste same food. We also need a diet with proper quantity of all kinds of food that have different tastes.
3. Jhoolan put a few drops of lemon juice in Jhumpa’s mouth. Do you think we can make out the taste with just a few drops?
Answer: Yes, we can make out the taste of lemon juice with just a few drops of it because lemon juice is very sour and our tongue has tiny bump-like structures that can recognise the taste with few drops.
4. How did Jhumpa make out the fried fish? Can you guess the names of certain things only by their smell, without seeing or tasting them? What are these things?
Answer: Jhumpa might have made out the fried fish by its smell. There are many other things we can make out using their smell. Few of them are
(i) Dal Tarka
(ii) Coffee
(iii) Jackfruit
(iv) Orange
(v) Lemon
(vi) Biriyani
5. Has anyone ever told you to hold your nose before taking a medicine? Why do you think they tell you to do this?
Answer: Many times, people told us to have medicine by holding our nose, so that we are able to take medicine properly without having bad smell of the medicine.