Healthy Foods

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat (7)
  2. 3. A melon vine of the genus ___ (8)
  3. 4. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  4. 5. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (plural) (8)
  5. 7. A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves (9)
  6. 9. Plant foods like carrots and broccoli (10)

Down

  1. 1. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (plural) (8)
  2. 3. Sweet brown treat made from cacao beans (9)
  3. 6. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  4. 8. Sweet baked dessert for birthdays (4)