NCERT Solutions for Class 5 EVS Chapter 4 Mangoes Round The Year
1.How did Aman know that the potato sabzi had got spoilt?
Ans. The bad smell from the potato sabzi gave the clue.
2.Have you ever seen some food that has got spoilt? How did you know that it was spoilt?
Ans. Yes, I have seen foods that have gone spoilt. The spoilt food smells bad and shows unusual colours.
3.Preeti told Nitu not to eat the potato sabzi. What would have happened if she had eaten it?
Ans. She may have fallen ill if she had eaten it.
Write
1.Look in your kitchen and write down names of food items that:
(a) Can get spoilt in 2-3 days.
Ans. Milk, bread, dal, boiled rice. .
(b) Can be kept for a week.
Ans. Potato, tomato, onion, cake.
(c) Would not spoil till one month.
Ans. Flou*, raw rice, pickles, ghee.
Biji Returned the Bread
1.Look at the picture of the bread packet here and guess why Biji
returned it? How did she find that the bread had got spoilt?
Ans. Biji may have found that the expiry date of the bread had lapsed.
She may have observed black-velvety spots on the bread.
Find Out
Look carefully at two-three packets of food items:
1.What can we know from what is written on the packet?
Ans. The food packet can give following information:
Price, weight, date of manufacturing, date of expiry and ingredients.
2.When you buy anything from the market, what do you look for on the packet?
Ans.I check for the dates of manufacturing and expiry. I also check for price and weight.
1.Why was sugar and jaggery mixed into the mango pulp and dried in the sun?
Ans. To make mamidi tandra (aam papad).