1. Plants used as food
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2. All the plants produce food by the process of photosynthesis, at first it is in form of carbohydrate but as per its requirement, the food is converted in form of protein, lipid, starch etc. and it is stored in the different parts of plants i.e. stem, leaves, root, fruit and seed.
All the animal uses the different parts of plant as a source of food. Majority of angiosperm plants are used as a food. The food plants are classified in four group.
Cereal,
Pulses,
Dry fruits,
Fruits and vegetables.

3. A. Cereal
Majority seeds of Gramineae or Poaceae family plants are call as cereals. The word Cereal come from the Greek Goddess ‘Annapurna’.
The wheat, rice, maize, jowar, bajara, etc are widely used cereals, some of the cereals like rye, banti, samo, barle, etc are not widely used so they are call as small grain or millets.
All the grain shows the high value of carbohydrate, and followed by protein, fat, vitamins.

4. The list of the plants used as cereals is as follow
The list of the plants used as cereals is as follow.. Rice: Oryza sativa Linn. Wheat: Triticum aestivum Linn. Jowar; Sorghum vulgare Pers. Maize: Zea maize Linn. Barley: Hordium vulgare linn. Bajara: Pennisetum typhoides Oat: Avena sativa Rai: Secale cereale Banti: Echinochloa stagnina Samo: E. colonum Morayo: E. crusgalli

5. B. Pulses Majority plants from family Leguminoceae
Sub family Fabeceae (papilionaceae)
High amount of protein
Plant containing root nodules having bacteria

6. Pigeon pea (tur)- Cajanus cajan
Chick pea (gram) – Cicer arietinum
Garden pea (pea) – Pisum sativum
Soya bean – Glycine max
Lablab – Dolichos lablab
Lentil- Lens esculenta
Green gram - Vigna radiata
Black gram - Phaseolus mungo
Moth bean - P. aconitiolius
Caw pea – Vigna ungulculata

7. C. Dry fruits Hard fruits, High amount of oil- lipids
Used after drying
Water nut – Trapa bispinosa
Almond – Prunus amygdalus
Green almond – Pistacia vera
Cashew nut – Anacardium occidentale
Wall nut – Juglans regia