Vocabulary · lesson 3 of 30 · free

Food and taste words — Vocabulary words for kids

Food words name meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), dishes (chapati, dal, curd), fruits, vegetables and drinks — and there are special words for how food tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and spicy.

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Taste it in your mind — “think of how the food tastes on your tongue”

  1. Five taste words: sugar is sweet, a lemon is sour, sea water is salty, karela is bitter, chillies are spicy.
  2. Meals by time: breakfast in the morning, lunch at midday, dinner at night.
  3. Group foods: fruits, vegetables, drinks and sweets — the odd one out belongs to another group.

Use it for: Describing food in essays, talking about meals and recipes, and food-and-nutrition lessons.

Worked example: Fill the gap: A lemon tastes ___. → sour

  1. Think of biting a lemon — your face scrunches up.
  2. That taste is sour: lemons, raw mangoes and tamarind are sour.

Check: “A lemon tastes sour” — sugar is the sweet one, sea water the salty one ✓

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