Food Groups

Question 1

What is a grain?

Answer 1

A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. A grain is a small, hard, dry seed, with or without an attached hull or fruit layer, harvested for human or animal consumption.
The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and legumes.

Question 2

The two main types of commercial grain crops are?

Answer 2

cereals and legumes.

Question 3

Dairy

Answer 3

Dairy products, milk products or lacticinia[1] are a type of food produced from or containing the milk of mammals, primarily cattle, water buffaloes, goats, sheep, camels, and humans.Dairy products include food items such as yogurt, cheese, and butter.

Question 4

Cereal / What is a Cereal Grain?

Answer 4

A cereal also called a cereal grain or simply a grain, is the edible seed of a grass, a plant in the Poaceae family. Cereals can be consumed in a variety of ways, all of which require husking and cooking, including whole, rolled, puffed, or ground into flour.

Question 5

Legumes

Answer 5

A legume (is a grain )(/ˈlɛɡjuːm, ləˈɡjuːm/) is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption of their grain seed (called pulse), for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, chickpeas, lentils, lupin bean, mesquite, carob, soybeans, peanuts and tamarind. Fabaceae is the most common family found in tropical rainforests and in dry forests in the Americas and Africa.

Question 6

What are Oats?

Answer 6

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other cereals and pseudocereals).