6. Do you know why you cry when you peel onions? It's the sulfuric ______________ that is made when the onion is cut open.
Find the Answer at:  http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio00/bio00039.htm

8. Vitamin A helps our eyesight, especially at night? Many fruits and vegetables are high in vitamin A. You should eat at least one of these a day. One serving of the vegetable __________ has 50 percent of the daily recommended amount of vitamin A.
Find the Answer at:  http://216.255.136.121/ReferenceCenter/NutritionCenter/VitaminA/A_Home.jsp

9. Have you ever tried to grow vegetables in your garden? Then you know that different vegetables grow best in different seasons. For example, cucumbers are grown in the _____________ months — unless you live in the southern part of the country.
Find the Answer at:  http://www.thevegetablepatch.com/patch/cucumber.htm

11. Think about this: When we eat a vegetable, we're eating a part of a plant, like the leaves of a lettuce plant or the roots of a carrot. When we munch on the leafy part of broccoli, we're eating the plant's __________!
Find the Answer at:  http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/c1f.html

12. Over 40 percent of the world's corn is grown in the United States, mostly in the Midwestern states known as the "corn belt." The state that produces the most corn is __________.
Find the Answer at:  http://www.iowacorn.org/cms/en/CornEducation/FAQ/Faq.aspx

 

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1. Celery has been around for about 3,000 years, but it wasn't eaten as a food until the 1600s. The ancient Greeks and Romans used celery as a __________.
Find the Answer at:  http://216.255.136.121/ReferenceCenter/Encyclopedia/Celery/celery_history.jsp

2. Lettuce, found in the wild, is a member of the __________ family.
Find the Answer at:  http://plants.montara.com/ListPages/FamPages/Astera6.html

3. Blackberries are a yummy way to get your ___________. There are 6 grams in every serving.
Find the Answer at:  http://216.255.136.121/ReferenceCenter/NutritionCenter/FruitFacts/F_Main.jsp?fruitid=5

5. When you think of carrots, you might think of their roots — the tasty treat that's high in vitamin A and low in fat. But here's a crazy fact: Carrot leaves were once used to decorate the ___________ of royalty!
Find the Answer at:  http://www.freshforkids.com.au/veg_pages/carrot/carrot.html

7. Before explorers traveled west to the "New World," many vegetables found in the Americas weren't even known in European countries. Tomatoes originated in Central America and were taken to Europe in the 1500s. When the tomato reached Italy, the Italians called it pomodoro, which means golden_______________.
Find the Answer at:  http://www.calsundry.com/Facts/interesting.html

10. For thousands of years, corn was grown only by the natives of North, Central, and South America. The Indian name for corn was MA-HIZ, which early settlers called___________________.
Find the Answer at: 
http://plimoth.org/discover/glossary.php

http://www.campsilos.org/mod3/students/c_history.shtml

11. Some foods like nuts, oils, butter and meat have plenty of ______________ while fruits and vegetables have almost none at all.  
Find the Answer at:  http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/nutrition/food/fat.html