Healthy Eating

Name: ______________________ Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

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3. Small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly (plural) (7)
7. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible (6)
9. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds (8)
11. Grains of common ___ (5)
12. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
14. Woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from (plural) (11)
15. Edible bulbs with a strong smell, often used in cooking. (6)

1. To prepare with dry heat in an oven (5)
2. Nut of any of various ___ trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell (plural) (7)
4. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
5. To cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of (5)
6. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
8. Plant foods like carrots and broccoli (10)
9. A small, round, edible fruit with dark-blue skin. (9)
10. Marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small (8)
13. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)