What are the foods we eat

Food is essential for our body to maintain a healthy heart, active brain, optimally working muscles and other organs. Food provides us energy and protect against from diseases. Food is made up of nutrients. These nutrients we get from variety of food items. All food we eat comes either from plants or animals.
Different types of fruits contain different nutrients, so it is important to eat a variety of fruits. They keep us healthy and strong.
Vegetables are good source of many nutrients. Vegetables like broccoli, spinach, tomatoes and garlic are considered to be very nutritious. Other vegetable includes drumsticks, potato, tomato, radish, turnip, cauliflower, capsicum, onion, spinach etc.
Cereals are grains used for food. Cereal includes wheat, oats, bajra (millets), maize and rice etc. Cereals are very important part of human diets is rich nutrients.
The main pulses include chickpeas, kidney beans, red gram, black gram (urad), red lentil, green. Pulses are used as foods such as dal, sambhar, curry etc.
Nuts are very nutritious and give lot of energy. They are considered healthy snacks. Nuts include pistachios, walnut, raisins, peanuts, almond, cashew nut etc.