Food Vocabulary Worksheet
Word tip (Taste it in your mind): Five taste words: sugar is sweet, a lemon is sour, sea water is salty, karela is bitter, chillies are spicy. Meals by time: breakfast in the morning, lunch at midday, dinner at night. Group foods: fruits, vegetables, drinks and sweets — the odd one out belongs to another group.
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- 1.Which word is the odd one out? (a) lassi (b) juice (c) kheer (d) buttermilk
- 2.Which word means “spiced fruit kept in oil”? (a) feast (b) dal (c) pickle (d) chapati
- 3.Which word is the odd one out? (a) onion (b) potato (c) peas (d) water
- 4.Which word means “a big, grand meal”? (a) dessert (b) feast (c) tiffin (d) pickle
- 5.What does “jaggery” mean? (a) a block of brown sugar (b) a packed lunch box (c) sweet food made by bees (d) sweet dish after a meal
- 6.Which word is the odd one out? (a) lassi (b) barfi (c) tea (d) buttermilk
- 7.Fill the gap: At the restaurant, we read the ___ to choose our food. (a) tiffin (b) recipe (c) salad (d) menu
- 8.Fill the gap: Mum put dal and rice in my ___ box for school. (a) tiffin (b) menu (c) recipe (d) salad
- 9.Fill the gap: Paneer is made from ___. (a) rice (b) milk (c) wheat (d) honey
- 10.Fill the gap: A lemon tastes ___. (a) spicy (b) sour (c) salty (d) sweet
- 11.What does “honey” mean? (a) melted, clear butter (b) the morning meal (c) flat round bread (d) sweet food made by bees
- 12.Which word is the odd one out? (a) water (b) buttermilk (c) onion (d) juice
- 13.Which word means “small food between meals”? (a) honey (b) dal (c) ghee (d) snack
- 14.What does “recipe” mean? (a) steps to cook a dish (b) sweet food made by bees (c) milk set overnight (d) list of dishes to order
- 15.What does “pickle” mean? (a) flat round bread (b) a block of brown sugar (c) sweet dish after a meal (d) spiced fruit kept in oil
- 16.What does “salad” mean? (a) steps to cook a dish (b) raw vegetables to eat (c) cooked lentils (d) spiced fruit kept in oil
- 17.Fill the gap: We sprinkle ___ on food to make it salty. (a) sugar (b) honey (c) jaggery (d) salt
- 18.Which word means “the meal at night”? (a) feast (b) jaggery (c) pickle (d) dinner
- 19.Fill the gap: We drink ___ when we are thirsty. (a) chapati (b) rice (c) bread (d) water
- 20.What does “dal” mean? (a) milk set overnight (b) cooked lentils (c) flat round bread (d) powder made from grain
- 21.Which word means “the meal at midday”? (a) feast (b) lunch (c) dessert (d) dinner
- 22.Which word is the odd one out? (a) ladoo (b) barfi (c) cabbage (d) gulab jamun
- 23.Fill the gap: Mum rolls out dough and cooks a ___ on the tawa. (a) juice (b) chapati (c) honey (d) curd
- 24.Which word means “cooked lentils”? (a) menu (b) dal (c) dessert (d) flour
- 25.Which word is the odd one out? (a) kheer (b) rasgulla (c) potato (d) ladoo
- 26.Which word means “fresh Indian cheese”? (a) juice (b) breakfast (c) dinner (d) paneer
- 27.Fill the gap: Sea water tastes ___. (a) spicy (b) salty (c) sweet (d) sour
- 28.Fill the gap: Green chillies taste ___. (a) sour (b) salty (c) sweet (d) spicy
- 29.Which word is the odd one out? (a) potato (b) cauliflower (c) rasgulla (d) brinjal
- 30.Which word is the odd one out? (a) banana (b) pineapple (c) apple (d) gulab jamun
- 31.Which word is the odd one out? (a) jalebi (b) ladoo (c) apple (d) barfi
- 32.What does “feast” mean? (a) spiced fruit kept in oil (b) small food between meals (c) a big, grand meal (d) the morning meal
- 33.Which word is the odd one out? (a) spinach (b) peas (c) brinjal (d) ladoo
- 34.Which word means “raw vegetables to eat”? (a) paneer (b) salad (c) chapati (d) juice
- 35.What does “lunch” mean? (a) the meal at midday (b) cooked lentils (c) spiced fruit kept in oil (d) drink pressed from fruit
- 36.What does “flour” mean? (a) the morning meal (b) the meal at midday (c) melted, clear butter (d) powder made from grain
- 37.Which word means “melted, clear butter”? (a) honey (b) ghee (c) juice (d) tiffin
- 38.Which word means “powder made from grain”? (a) snack (b) salad (c) tiffin (d) flour
- 39.Fill the gap: Karela tastes ___. (a) salty (b) sweet (c) sour (d) bitter
- 40.Which word is the odd one out? (a) ladoo (b) kheer (c) jalebi (d) brinjal
Answer key
- kheer
- pickle
- water
- feast
- a block of brown sugar
- barfi
- menu
- tiffin
- milk
- sour
- sweet food made by bees
- onion
- snack
- steps to cook a dish
- spiced fruit kept in oil
- raw vegetables to eat
- salt
- dinner
- water
- cooked lentils
- lunch
- cabbage
- chapati
- dal
- potato
- paneer
- salty
- spicy
- rasgulla
- gulab jamun
- apple
- a big, grand meal
- ladoo
- salad
- the meal at midday
- powder made from grain
- ghee
- flour
- bitter
- brinjal
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