Food and Health · NCERT Class 3 Our Wondrous World

Food We Eat

Food gives us energy to play, grow and learn. Tap each idea to find out where our food comes from, the many kinds we eat, and why we should respect food and never waste it.

🍽️ 3 topics⏱ ~12 min📝 8-question quiz

Play with it

Six things about the food we eat

Tap each term to learn where food comes from and how to eat well.

Explore · Foodtap a term

Learn

Three big ideas

Most of our food comes from plants — rice, wheat, dal, fruits, vegetables and oils.
Some food comes from animals — milk, curd, eggs, fish and honey.
Farmers grow crops and keep animals, and then the food travels through markets to our kitchens.

Sort it. Is an egg a food from a plant or an animal? What about a banana?

An egg comes from a hen (an animal); a banana grows on a plant. Both are tasty and good for us.

We eat meals through the day — breakfast, lunch and dinner — to get energy.
Some food we eat raw, like fruits and salad; other food we cook, like rice and dal, to make it soft and tasty.
Eating many kinds of food — grains, dal, vegetables, fruit and milk — keeps us strong and healthy.

Common mix-up: Sweets and chips are tasty, but they are not a meal. Our body needs a mix of foods, not just one kind.

We should eat fresh food and wash fruits and vegetables before eating.
We should not waste food — take only what we can eat, and finish what is on our plate.
Many people — farmers, sellers and cooks — work hard to bring food to us. Respecting food means being thankful and not wasting it.

Think. There is extra food after a party. What is a good thing to do?

Share it with others or store it safely to eat later. Good food should be shared, never thrown away.

Where you'll see it

Food on our plate

A colourful plate

A plate with roti, dal, sabzi, curd and a fruit has foods from both plants and animals — a healthy, happy meal.

From farm to kitchen

The wheat in your roti was grown by a farmer and ground into flour — many hands bring food to your plate.

A clean lunch

Washing your hands and your fruit before eating keeps germs away and your tummy happy.