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