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ABC’s of Food
Letter “A”Apple : a rounded fruit with red, yellow or green skin
When my mom went to the grocery store, the apples were on sale .
•Can be a bright red, yellow or green
•Grows on trees
•Can be bought at the grocery store
Letter “B”Beans : a seed or pod of any various erect or a climbing leguminous plants
When I went to go and eat on the buffet they have beans .
•Can be brown, black or green
•Farmers grow it
•Found at a lot of restaurants
Letter “C”Corn : the seed of a cereal grass & especially of the important crop
My grandpa owns a farm and him and his sons plant/grow corn .
•Is yellow
•Grown in fields from farmers
•It is a crop
Letter “D”Dumplings : a small mass of dough cooked by boiling or steaming
Every time we go to Crackle Barrel Anna gets dumplings .
•You can eat them at Crackle Barrel
•Cooked balls of dough
•Dumplings can be sweet or spicy
Letter “E”Eggs : the hard shelled reproductive body produced by a bird When you bake a cake you have to use eggs .
•They contain protein, minerals and vitamins except vitamin C
•China produces most of the eggs
•A fresh egg will sink and a stale one will float
Letter “F”Fish : an aquatic animal usually used in combination
When you go to a seafood restaurant, most likely there is going to be fish .
•You will find it on most menus at the beach
•There are various types of fish you can eat
•They have been on earth more than 450 million years
Letter “G”Grape :green or purple berry with sweet juicy flesh that grows in bunches on a vine, eaten fresh or used to make wine or juice When you go to the grocery store there are red and green grapes .
•They can be green or red/purple grapes
•You can buy them at the grocery store
•One grape vine can grow to be 50 feet long
Letter “H”Hamburger : a ground beef ;a cooked pattyWhen I go to Pats in Benson I get a hamburger .
•The world hamburger probably existed by the end of the middle ages
•You can buy hamburgers most likely at any restaurant.
•Hamburgers today are served with pickles and lettuce etc.
Letter “I”Icing: a sweet glace made of sugar, butter, water & eggs
When my mom bakes a cake she puts icing on it .
•You put them on cakes and cupcakes
•It is really ,really sweet
•It can be different colors
Letter “j”jam : a spread made by boiling fruit
When I got to Crackle Barrel I see a lot of people with jam .
•It is very sticky
•They are made by cooking whole fruit with sugar
•It contains a whole cup of fruit and rest sugar
Letter “K”Kiwi : a green fruit with a fuzzy outside I don’t like to eat kiwi because of the fuzzy outside .
•There are more than 400 different varieties of kiwi fruit.
•Kiwi can be small or medium in size
•The shell of the skin can be eaten or peeled
Letter “L”Lettuce : a common garden vegetable of the daisy family
When I go out to eat my mom always gets a salad which has lettuce in it .•Americans eat about 30 lbs of lettuce every year
•There are 4 different types of lettuce
•The lettuce we see today actually started out as weed
Letter “M”Mango : a smooth rind, sweet juicy flesh ; a flat one seeded stone
To eat the mango you have to cut it with a Sharpe knife.
•Mangos are about 6 in long
•It has a thick greenish or yellowish skin
•a mango tree can grow up to be ninety feet long
Letter “N” Nectarine : a variety of peach having a smooth down less skin
Nectarine almost tastes like peaches because it has a variety of peaches in it. •The nectarine tree produces peaches
•A nectarine is almost identical to a peach
•It has been known for 2,000 years
Letter “O”Orange : reddish yellow bitter or sweet edible citrus fruit
Oranges are used in orange juice that some people may drink in the morning.
•In Jamaica people clean their floors with a half orange
•Spain has over 35,000,000 orange trees
•they grow on evergreen trees which are about 30 ft tall
Letter “P”Papaya : a large yellow melon like fruit of a American shrub
In the middle of a papaya there are tons of seeds .
•There are two types of papayas
•Papayas like to be warm form the sunshine
•The papaya is the fruit of the Carica Papaya tree
Letter “Q”Quince : the fruit such as a tree
Quince is almost like an apple it grows off a tree and almost looks like a yellow apple .
•The fruit is to small and to hard to be of commercial value
•The quince is a relative value of the apple and the pear
•Over 4,000 years the trees have grown in Asia
Letter “R”Rambutan : the bright red oval fruit
An unpeeled rambutan looks like a grape but just a different color.
•In some countries the rambutan is common in gardens
•It is eaten fresh
•Rambutan is most commonly grown in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia
Letter “S”Star fruit : fruit in the shape of a star that tastes like kiwi
In our cafeteria at school they serve star fruit with certain meals.
•It is 6 inches long
•They are produced by the carambola tree
•It has waxy skin
Letter “T”Tomato : red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable
There are tomatoes in ketchup.
•It’s the worlds most popular fruit
•There are more than 16 million tons of tomatoes grown each year
•Tomatoes are rich in vitamin A and C
Letter “U”Ugli : a large sweet variety of tangelo having yellow skin
Ugli fruit almost looks like a rotten orange .
•Ugli is a Jamaican fruit
•It is a size of a smallish grapefruit but is sweeter
•The American pronunciation is “ugly”
Letter “V”Voavango : a round fruit that is green with white dots and turns brown when fully ripe
Voavango is a Spanish tamarind fruit.
•It is about 1.5 to 2 in big
•It is a Spanish tamarind
•It is a very rare fruit
Letter “W”Watermelon : having a hard green rind & sweet watery pink or reddish flesh During the summer time my grandma brings home watermelon .
•Watermelon is actually a vegetable not a fruit
•Over 1,200 varieties of watermelons are grown
•Watermelon became apart of the dictionary in 1615
Letter “X”Xigua : looks like a watermelon only shorter in size
When you plant watermelons in a garden they almost look like xigua
•It is found in Africa
•It is a small fruit
•The fruit is favorite with the birds
Letter “Y”Yellow watermelon : same as watermelon just a different color which is yellow Yellow watermelon looks just like regular watermelon but on the inside instead of it being pink it is yellow .
• It is not sold at grocery stores
• It is very rare
• It is commonly used in salads
Letter “Z”Zucchini : a variety of squash having an elongated shape & smooth skin
Zucchini is more popular in Italy verse North America .
•Strange explorers are the ones who bring back zucchini
•They contain useful amounts of folate
•The skin color can be black , dark green and pale green
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