From Market to Home Class 4 Notes CBSE EVS Chapter 15 [Free PDF Download]

Summary of From Market to Home

• This chapter will let us know the life of the sellers in the market.

• Especially the small vegetable sellers in the market.

• Vegetables are usually bought every day from the wholesale market (mandi) and sold to consumers.

So, let’s have a look:

Story of Vaishali

• Vaishali’s father was a vegetable seller.

• Her whole family helped her father every day.

• Her family used to wake up at 3’o clock every day to get her father, elder brother, and uncle ready for the mandi.

• They keep aside the previous day’s vegetables and clean the gunny bags.

• Then her father, uncle, and elder brother leave for the mandi for the fresh vegetables.

• While her father is at the mandi, Vaishali and her mother prepare the previous day’s vegetables, by sprinkling water on them to keep them fresh.

• Sprinkling water on the vegetables keeps them hydrated and fresh for a longer time.

• As her father returns with fresh vegetables everyone helps her father to get ready to go to the market.

• Her father leaves early to reach his daily customers on time.

• Her father always tries to sell the old vegetable stock first then the fresh ones.

• He tries to sell the old vegetable first because they would not stay fresh for a longer period.

• Especially on summer days her father used to sprinkle water on the vegetables on a regular period so that they don’t dry up. 

Vegetables

• Vegetables are plant parts that are eaten by humans and other animals.

• Broadly vegetables are of Four types:

1. Leafy Green

2. Roots

3. Nightshades

4. Edible plant stem

• Leafy Green: Plant leaves, sometimes with tender petioles and shoots, are eaten as a vegetable known as leafy green vegetables. Examples: kale, broccoli, spinach, cabbage.

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• Roots: Humans eat the underground plant parts known as root vegetables. Example: Beets, Parsnips, Turnips, Rutabagas, Carrots.

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• Nightshades: Tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, and peppers are all members of the nightshade family of plants.

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• Edible Plant Stem: Plant stems are one of the parts of plants that humans eat. Stems, roots, leaves, flowers, and fruits containing seeds make up the majority of plants.

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Practice Questions

Q1. Why does the vegetable seller have to sell the previous day's leftover vegetables first?

Ans: Vegetable seller tries to sell the old vegetable stock first because it would not stay fresh for a longer period.

Q2. There are various methods of preserving food. From the given box, select the method of preservation that fits best in the sentences given below.

1. Food is processed & sealed in an airtight container.

Ans: Canning

2. Food is dried.

Ans: Drying

3. Food is rapidly frozen.

Ans: Freezing

4. Soaking food in salt water, vinegar or oil

Ans: Pickling

5. Food stored in a airtight bag under vacuum        

Ans: Vaccum

Importance of CBSE Class 4 EVS Chapter 15 From Market to Home

This story revolves around the small family of Vaishali. She is a young girl who helps her father arrange things before he goes to the market and sells vegetables. She, along with her brothers and mother, helps her father to sort vegetables very early in the morning.

They also help prepare the gunny bags where the vegetables are stored. They sprinkle water on the sacs to keep them fresh throughout the day. After returning from the wholesale vegetable market or the mandi, her father takes the fresh vegetables to the market to sell.

The chapter also describes the list of vegetables and fruits he sells in the market daily. The faster he reaches the market, the more he can sell and make some profits. Hence, this chapter depicts the daily routine of a vegetable seller and his family.

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