You hear with your ears, you smell with your nose, you taste
with your mouth and you see with your eyes. But we use
our eyes to taste as well. We can look at food and think that
it is good to eat. In fact, it’s all about color. Welcome to the
5 wonderful world of rainbow foods!

Red, orange, yellow, green, white, blue, and purple fruits and
vegetables are called “rainbow foods”. Rainbow foods are very
good for you. Why? First, they give you energy. Second, each
color group has different vitamins and minerals. They help you stay healthy. Third,
when you eat rainbow foods, your body is strong and you don’t often get sick.

Doctors say it’s important to eat fruits and vegetables from all five color groups every
day. This is a great way to give your body everything it needs to help you stay healthy.
In fact, not all colorful foods are healthy. Think about butter.
People like yellow butter, but did you know that butter is really white? Butter has
yellow food coloring in it. Food coloring is not always healthy.
There are other foods and drinks that have food coloring. So we need to think
about what is in the foods we eat.

Are the sentences true or false? Do as many as you can.

1. We use our eyes to smell.
2. Only red foods are rainbow foods.
3. Rainbow foods are healthy.
4. It’s important to eat rainbow foods once a week.
5. Butter is not really yellow.
6. All colorful foods are healthy.

Choose the correct answers.

1. We taste food with our ..
a. mouths b. ears c. mouths as well as our eyes

2. Rainbow foods are ..
a. good for you b. bad for you c. red, green, and yellow

3. Doctors tell us to eat food from … color groups every day.
a. two b. each c. five

4. The color in some food is not..
a. real b. healthy c. wonderful