Healthiest Foods Game
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- 4. A colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
- 7. A herbaceous plant widely cultivated as a source of food for humans and livestock, and for processing into sugar. Some varieties are grown for their leaves and some for their large nutritious root.
- 9. A garden plant with thick long-stalked edible leaves and usually an enlarged purplish-red root used as a vegetable, as a source of sugar, or as food for livestock.
- 12. A sweet soft red fruit with a seed-studded surface.
- 14. A round usually sweet juicy fruit with a yellowish to reddish-orange rind.
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- 1. A hot, fragrant spice made from the rhizome of a plant, which may be chopped or powdered for cooking, preserved in syrup, or candied.
- 2. A small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red.
- 3. A hot drink made from the roasted and ground seeds (beans) of a tropical shrub.
- 5. A glossy red, or occasionally yellow, pulpy edible fruit that is eaten as a vegetable or in a salad.
- 6. The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh. Many varieties have been developed as desserts for cooking fruit or for making cider.
- 8. An oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate, usually containing a developing embryo. The eggs of birds are enclosed in a chalky shell, while those of reptiles are in a leathery membrane.
- 10. The oval edible nutlike seed (kernel) of the almond tree, growing in a woody shell, is widely used as food.
- 11. A hardy cabbage (Brassica oleracea acephala) with curled often finely incised leaves that do not form a dense head.
- 13. A large and active predatory schooling fish of the mackerel family. Found in warm seas, it is extensively fished commercially and is popular as a game fish.
- 15. A tall North American plant of the daisy family, with very large golden-rayed flowers. Sunflowers are cultivated for their edible seeds, which are an important source of oil for cooking and margarine.