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Food and Nutrition MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
Solve 10 Food and Nutrition questions for RAS/RPSC preparation.
Practice questions
Q1A Class V teacher writes four steps for safe drinking water at school in mixed order on the board. P. Pour the water into a clean covered jug for class use. Q. Bring water to a rolling boil on the chulha for some minutes. R. Cool the boiled water under a clean cotton cloth lid. S. Strain raw water through a clean cotton cloth filter first. Pick the correct sequence of steps from start to finish.
Safe drinking water at school begins with cleaning the raw water of seen dust and grit. Step S — straining raw water through a clean cotton cloth filter — is the start of the chain. Then comes step Q — bringing the cleared water to a rolling boil on the chulha for some minutes — to kill germs that the cloth cannot catch. Step R — cooling the boiled water under a clean cotton cloth lid — keeps fresh dust from settling while the water cools. The last step P — pouring the water into a clean covered jug for class use — keeps it safe until pupils drink. So the chain runs S, then Q, then R, then P, which is the order printed under choice B on the board today for the pupils.
Q2A Class V pupil eats a chapati made of wheat flour during the school meal. Which group of nutrients does the wheat chapati primarily provide that gives the pupil daily energy for play and study?
Wheat is a cereal grain and wheat chapati is a starchy food, so its main nutrient group is carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are a primary energy source, which fits the child's daily need for running, writing and concentrating. Vitamins and minerals are protective and regulatory nutrients, while proteins mainly support growth and repair. Those groups are present across many foods, but the best primary mapping for a plain wheat chapati is carbohydrates.
Q3A primary teacher writes two short statements on the board for a Class IV class about a balanced plate. Statement 1: A balanced plate combines food from many groups, not just one type. Statement 2: A balanced plate must always include only fried items in every meal of the day. Which of the two statements is the teacher correct to keep?
Statement 1 maps cleanly to the basic balanced-plate idea taught at primary level: a meal must mix grains, pulses, vegetables, fruit, and a small dairy share so that children get every nutrient group together. Statement 2 is misleading because daily fried-only meals load the plate with extra fat and burden a young child's stomach, so the teacher should not let pupils carry it home as a habit. Therefore, only Statement 1 holds, and the teacher should rub Statement 2 off the board before the class period ends. The fitting label here is Only Statement 1 is sound. So choice C in our list reads only Statement 1 is sound, and that is the pick the teacher should make for the class today during this primary EVS lesson.
Q4A primary teacher asks a Class III pupil to name a food whose source is purely a plant. Which option below names a food that comes only from plants and not from any animal source?
Wheat flour is produced by grinding wheat grain, which is the seed of a cereal plant; therefore the chain of origin lies entirely within plants. Curd is set from milk and milk is taken from a cow or buffalo, so it carries an animal source. Honey is gathered by the honey bee, which is an insect, so the food is animal-derived even though flowers are involved. Eggs come from hens and so are clearly animal in origin. The pupil must trace the food back to its true source rather than to where it is processed.
Q5A Class V teacher in Jaipur prints a small fact card from the official Mid-Day Meal Scheme guidelines for an EVS class. The card asks pupils about the official daily energy share for primary classes, that is Class I to Class V. According to the official MoE guidelines, what is the printed daily energy figure for the primary stage child?
The official Mid-Day Meal Scheme guidelines printed by the MoE list a primary stage daily food energy share of about 450 kilocalories for a Class I to Class V pupil, paired with about 12 grams of protein. The upper primary stage of Class VI to Class VIII carries a higher daily food energy share of about 700 kilocalories with about 20 grams of protein, but those figures sit outside the primary stage card on the teacher table today. So the figure that fits the printed card for primary stage is roughly 450 kilocalories. Therefore the pupil should ring the option marked roughly 450 kilocalories of daily food energy on the EVS card, which sits on choice A of the print sheet for the class.
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6A Class V teacher prepares a board card asking pupils to match each cooking method on the left with the most fitting food example on the right. List I — i. Boiling, ii. Roasting, iii. Steaming, iv. Frying. List II — 1. Pakora made in hot oil, 2. Idli softened on a steamer rack, 3. Bati on bed of glowing coals, 4. Rice cooked in a covered pot of water. Pick the correct match.
7Read the assertion and reason about a primary school nutrition scheme. Assertion: The Mid-Day Meal Scheme, now called PM Poshan, is a hot cooked meal served on every school day in primary classrooms across India. Reason: The scheme is run only to keep classrooms calm during noon hours and not to lift the nutrition status of children at primary level. Choose the correct relationship.
8A Class IV teacher prints four short statements about food preservation in a primary home. Statement i: Salt rubbed on raw mango pieces helps to keep them long. Statement ii: A clean dry jar with a tight lid keeps spice powder safe from damp. Statement iii: A spoon with sugar in summer milk keeps the milk fresh for many days. Statement iv: Sun-drying mathania chillies makes them last for the whole winter. Which set of statements is fully sound to share with pupils?
9A primary teacher in Bikaner shows pupils a tray of typical Rajasthani regional foods during a Class IV EVS lesson. Which of the following items should NOT be included as a regional Rajasthani food?
10A Class V teacher writes a class list of seven food items on the chalkboard during an EVS period: spinach leaves, an orange, a cup of milk, a chapati, a moong dal bowl, a fistful of peanuts, and a glass of plain water. How many of the seven items mainly serve as a body-building protein source for a growing primary pupil?