Object

To prepare food table according to daily diet and

food habits (For self observation, find out which of
the component of balanced diet is decreases due to
food habit.)

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 Method
Note down the quantity in gram of different
substances such as food grains or cereals, pulses,
green vegetables, roots, and stems, milk, oil and fat,
sugar or gur etc. in your daily diet (including
breakfast, tea, lunch, dinner etc.). Then write calorie
value of each substance from the calorific chart
available in your laboratory. Then note the balance
diet and its calorific value also to compare with your
daily diet is balance or not.

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 Observation table
Daily Quantity Calorific Balance diet
diet (in gram) value of
daily diet Quantity Calorie
(in gram)
Food grain or
cereals 500 1600 435 1392
Pulses 100 100 52 52
Green vegetables 100 80 125 100
Other vegetables 100 80 125 100
Root and stems - - 125 125
Milk 500 250 300 150
Oil and fat 30 240 60 480
Sugar and gur 100 400 60 240
Total 1430 2750 1282 2639

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 Inference
To maintain health and to gain necessary energy for
daily work, food is needed for every one.
Carbohydrate, protein, fat, mineral salts etc. nutritive
materials are essential part of food. Need of energy
in person depends on age and profession.
Due to the change in food habit, now a days, people
are not giving proper importance to leafy vegetable
in balance diet, and hence, minerals and vitamins are
decreasing in food.

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 Reference
Shivalal Practical Science of High School
By - Shivalal Agarawal & Company