How+Food+is+made

=How Food is Produced= All the food we eat comes from plants or from animals. Fresh foods like vegetables are grown on farms. Fruit mostly grows on trees in orchards. Most vegetables are planted in spring and harvested in summer, but some can be grown all year round, especially in Australia because it is warm in some parts all the time. Plants are harvested by hand if they are soft and squashy, like berries, or by machines if they are tough, like wheat. Watch this video to see some plants being harvested on farms in England. All foods have to be cleaned before they are sent to market. Watch this video to see where some fruit and vegetables come from. Check out this site to see how a combine harvester is used to harvest grain crops. Check out these links to find our what you want to know, but be careful not to get sidetracked by information you don't need. Stick with your focus question and your keywords! Apples Berries Potatoes Sweetcorn
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Most of the foods we buy in supermarkets are processed in factories. At the factory the food can be made suitable for eating or selling in shops by
 * Processed foods**
 * cleaning it e.g. cleaning egg shells
 * peeling it e.g. peeling pineapple skin
 * sorting it into different sizes e.g. sorting different sized eggs
 * removing parts of it e.g. removing plum stones or olive pips
 * chopping it into different shapes e.g. tinned peaches
 * adding other ingredients and mixing it e.g. adding chocolate flavouring to milk
 * adding other ingredients and partly cooking it e.g.frozen fish fingers, frozen pizza
 * making it into a powder e.g.milling wheat to make flour
 * drying the liquid out of it e.g. drying chocolate milk to make Milo
 * adding preservatives to stop it going off e.g. adding salt to tomato sauce
 * packaging it in a can, jar or a packet
 * freezing it in a packet e.g. frozen peas

Bread Cheese Chewing gum @Chocolate @Coffee Eggs Fish Frozen vegetables Honey - make sure you visit the harvesting honey page.and this page about beekeeping equipment. Milk Pasta is made from flour and water and sometimes egg. Clcik here to see the machines they use. Scroll down to see a diagram of the machines. @Peanuts Pizza (see video) Potato chips Sausages Sugar

Beef Lamb Chicken Fish
 * Meat and Fish**