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