Mangoes Round the Year
NCERT Looking Around, Class 5, Chapter 4 starts with juicy summer mangoes and asks why they vanish after the season. It explains that warmth and moisture let germs spoil food, so families preserve harvests by drying, salting, pickling, and boiling fruit into jam, jelly, and sweet mango papad. Children compare cold storage and refrigeration with age-old village methods and learn how sugar, salt, and oil slow decay. The chapter ends with tasting stored foods and noting how careful preservation saves money, labour, and the harvest.
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