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Some plants store their food in leaves.

These roots bulge up and are used as food, e.g. :
radish, carrot, beet etc.
Beet Carrot

These leaves are used as food, e.g. : lettuce,

cabbage, spinach etc.

Cabbage Spinach

Some plants store their food in fruits.

These fruits are eaten as vegetables, e.g. :
brinjal, tomato etc.
Brinjal Tomato

Some plants store their food in stems.

These stems are eaten as food, e.g. :

sugarcane, onion etc. Sugarcane Onion

Strange but true

Potato and ginger grow under the ground but they are stems not roots.

As Fruits

Fruits are the fleshy part of a plant that can
be eaten as food.
Apple Banana
Fruits are sweet in taste. Mango Orange

They keep us healthy, e.g. : orange, mango, apple etc.

As Nuts

We get nuts from some plants.

Nuts are fruits with a hard covering called
Almond Walnut shell.
Cashew nut
Nuts give us energy , e.g. : almond, walnut cashew nut etc.

As Spices
Turmeric
Some plants give us spices.

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Spices add taste colour and flavour to food. Pepper, Black
clove, ginger turmeric etc., are some common spices. pepper Clove