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प्रश्न
Find out from your grandparents or parents the names of vegetables and fruits they had eaten in their childhood and mention how the vegetables and fruits are different from the one's today.
| Name of the vegetable or fruit | Shape | Colour | Taste |
| 1. | |||
| 2. | |||
| 3. |
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उत्तर
| Name of the vegetable or fruit | Shape | Colour | Taste |
| 1. Mango | Round, Oval | Yellow | Sweet |
| 2. Banana | curved | Yellow | less sweet, depending on the variety |
| 3. Plum | Round or Oval | reddish-purple, yellow, Red | sweet to tart |
| 4. Amla | spherical | light-greenish yellow | sour and bitter |
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