Healthy Eating

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Climbing vine native to China (4)
  2. 4. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (plural) (8)
  3. 5. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds (8)
  4. 8. An African melon (10)
  5. 10. Large sweet ___ or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus (plural) (12)
  6. 11. The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine (8)
  7. 13. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  8. 14. Any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins (5)
  9. 16. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)

Down

  1. 1. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  2. 3. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  3. 6. A variety of mandarin orange (9)
  4. 7. Small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly (plural) (7)
  5. 9. Nut of any of various ___ trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell (plural) (7)
  6. 12. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (6)
  7. 15. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong (6)