Grow with fruit and vegetables

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This book was written by Alison Laycock when she was a teacher at Umbakumba School on Groote Eylandt.

She had advice on nutrition from Christine Cook who was a dietitian on Groote Eylandt.

It has been compiled for post primary Home Economics students in Aboriginal schools.

However, much of the content pertains to junior secondary Food and Nutrition classes in the Northern Territory schools.

It is also of use to those Aboriginal Health Workers who wish to know more about Food and Nutrition or are formally studying it for their Post Basic Skills co1,.1rse .

ISBN 0-7245-1240-3

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FRUIT ^& VEGETABLES

Fruit and vegetables are foods which come from plants. They might be roots grow:ng under the ground, leaves growing on small bushes or fruit hanging from a tree.

If the food from the plants is sweet, it is fruit. Oranges, bananas, paw-paws, mangoes and berries are sweet, so they are fruit.

If the food from the plant is not sweet, it is called a vegetable.

Yams, pumpkins, spinach, potatoes, onion, carrots, peas and capsicum are some vegetables.

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1. Name these fruits & vegetables.

2. Say if they are fruit or vegetables.

3. Colour them.

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GROWING FRUIT & VEGETABLES

Some fruit & vegetables grow wild by themselves in the bush. When they grow by themselves they are wild fruit & vegetables.

Yams, Adamirra, Mawudarra, --~~~~~~-and~~~~~~~­

Mawilyilylkwa are all wild fruit and vegetables.

Some fruit and vegetables only grow if someone plants them and waters them, and keeps the insects away. When the plants grow

in this way, we call them cultivated fruit and vegetables.

Carrots, onions, apples and pears are some fruits and vegetables which are cultivated.

Most of the fruit and vegetables that are cultivated in Australia, grow wild in some other country. Mangoes and pineapples grow wild in India, coconuts grow wild in Fiji and potatoes grow wild in South America.

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1. Write down the names of some wild fruit and vegetables that grow near you.

2. Write down the names of some cultivated fruit and vegetables that grow in· yo_ur_ commur:-i ty or _nearby~ _

3. Write in your Aboriginal names of the wild fruit and vege tabl es.

Wild Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated Fruit and Vegetables

TIIE PARTS· OF THE PLANT

Djfferent fruits and vegetables come from different parts of the plant.

The fruit and vegetables might be roots, stalks, leaves, fruit, seeds or flowers.

Put the names of parts on this plant:

seeds inside fruit, root, fruit.

stalk, leaf, flower,

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Put these fruits ·and vegetables with the part of the plant they come from.

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carrots, spinach, berries.

ROOTS SEEDS FLOWERS STALKS FRUIT LEAVES

sugarcane, lettuce, apples, peas, yams, cauliflower, plums, beans, asparagus, tomato, broccoli, onions,

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GREEN RIPE RAW COOKED

When the fruit and vegetables are growing or the plants and they are not ready for you to eat, we say they a~e green.

When fruit and vegetables are ready to eat, they are ripe.

If the fruit and vegetables have not been cooked on the fire or in some other way, we say they a r e ~ ·

When the fruit and vegetables have been cooked on the fire, in an oven, or in water in a billy or pot, or fried in oil, they are cooked, as we all know. They can also be cooked together, with some water or juice added, to make soup or stew with meat or fish or chicken as well.

There are many ways to cook fruit and vegetables. The ones we buy in cans in the shop have been cooked in water, with sugar or salt, before they are put into cans. This kills most germs.

Colour this as a green paw-paw.

This paw-paw is ripe.

Colour it.

8.

Finish these sentences.

If I go to the jungle and yams are not readv to dig, I will

say the yams are and

If I go to the jungle and it is the right time to dig the yams, I will say that they are

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If I put the yams on the fire, I will say they are and

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. Then I will eat the yams.

RIPE RAW COOKED GREEN RAW RIPE

Draw a picture of people digging yams.

SEASONS FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Fruit and vegetables do not ripen all at the same time. When it is the right time for a fruit or vegetable to ripen, we say that it is in season. Yams are in season in the beginning and the middle of the dry. Green plums are in season at the end of the dry.

When are the tamarinds in season?

When it is the wrong time for a fruit or vegetable to ripen, we say that it is· out of season. Mangoes are out of season in the middle of the dry. Cucumbers are out of season in the middle of the wet.

Sometimes people will store fruit and. vegetables in the

refrigerator or freezer and then they may be kept and eaten when they are not in season.

Canned, frozen or dried foods last a long time and these fruit and vegetabels can be eaten all year round.

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MATCH THESE" SENTENCES

1. Yams are to dig at a) people keep them in the 2. Wher paw-s a yellow colour it refrigerator

3. You can Eples out of season b) is raw

because c) is ripe

4. Carrots ce d) root of the plant

5 . Peas are e) the end of the wet season 6. If the pt has not been f) seed of the plant

cooked, it

g) is cooked.

7. If the pt has been put in the fjt

Write thEect sentences here:

Fruit and Vegetables Keep You Healthy

Fruit and vegetables are good food. They are 'number one' tucker recause they are 'glow' foods which protect us from getting sick,

and help us to get well fast when we are sick.

They have vitamins in them. Vitamins help to heal our sores and cuts.

Fruit and vegetables that are ripe in season and have just been picked are the best kind. They have lots of vitamins, many more than canned food.

Fruit and vegetables that were picked a long time ago and are out of season. are not the best kind ey have only a few vitamins.

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These people are healthy.

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EATING FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Most fruit and vegetables are good to eat raw but some are better tast:i.ng when they are cooked. Some of them are also easier for the body to use if they are cooke·d.

It is better to eat fruit and vegetables raw because some of the vitamins are destroyed when the food is cooked for a long time.

Don't cook them any longer than you need to before you eat them.

SOME WORK FOR YOU TO DO

1. Find some reciEes with raw fruit and vegetables

(a) Banana Custard page of

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(b) Fruit Salad page of book

( c) Coleslaw page of

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(d) Tossed Salad page of book

2. LOOK IN THE DICTIONARY AND FIND "DESTROY"

Write the meaning here - DESTROY -

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FIND SOME' ··PTCTURES

Use the magazines. Find pictures of raw and cooked vegetables.

Stick them into tL.is bock.

RAW FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

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Pictures of - COOKED FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

COOKING VEGETABLES

You can cook some vegetables to make them tasr better~ Here are some ways to cook vegetables.

You can boil some vegetables in water. Some vegetables you can boil are beans, peas, carrots, potatoes.

You can fry some vegetables in oil or butter. Some vegetables you can fry are onions, potatoes and

carrots.

You can bake some vegetables in the oven or in the ashes of the fire.

Some vegetables you ·can bake are yams, pumpkin, potatoes, carrots and onions.

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FIND SOME RECIPES

1. Find a recipe for a fried vegetables dish.

Write it here.

2. Find a recipe for a baked vegetable.

Write it here.

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G. L DUFFIELD, Government Pnnter of the Nont-,, Tenttory