Everyday Foods from Rainforests
Know that many everyday foods come from rainforests — chocolate is made from cacao beans, bananas grow in tropical forests, coffee berries ripen in forest shade, and Brazil nuts fall from giant trees — connecting our daily lives to faraway forests
What a learner can do afterwards
- Name at least three foods that come from rainforests, such as chocolate (cacao), bananas, and Brazil nuts
- Explain that cacao beans grow on trees in the rainforest and are made into chocolate
- Connect their own food choices to rainforest origins by identifying a product they eat that comes from the forest
The lesson
Look at your snacks. Some foods come from rainforests far away. Chocolate, bananas, coffee, and Brazil nuts all grow there.
Chocolate starts as cacao beans. Cacao beans grow on trees in the rainforest. Farmers pick the beans and turn them into chocolate.
Bananas grow on tall plants in tropical forests. Coffee berries ripen in the cool forest shade. Brazil nuts fall from giant rainforest trees.
Next time you eat chocolate, think of the rainforest. Your snack traveled a long way to reach you.
Chocolate, bananas, coffee, and Brazil nuts all come from a rainforest.
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