The Healthy Living Word Search!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (6)
  2. 6. Pasta in the form of long strings (9)
  3. 7. Free from dirt (5)
  4. 9. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (plural) (12)
  5. 12. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  6. 14. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  7. 15. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  8. 16. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)

Down

  1. 1. An edible tuber native to South America (6)
  2. 3. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)
  3. 4. Plant foods like carrots and broccoli (10)
  4. 5. A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root (6)
  5. 8. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds (8)
  6. 10. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  7. 11. Small juicy fruit that grows in bunches (6)
  8. 13. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural) (4)