By Carmel Boo Photosynthesis is the process of plants making its own “food.”
Plants need four things to carry out photosynthesis -- sunlight, water, chlorophyll (which gives the leaf its green look) and carbon dioxide.
It is interesting to know how photosynthesis works. It is just like baking a cake.
The plant firstly “works” on the two ingredients-- carbon dioxide and water -- before it is baked in sunlight and chlorophyll. This is what produces glucose and oxygen. There’s also an equation which is CO2 +H20 -> energy -> C6H12O6 + O2.
The final products of photosynthesis are glucose and oxygen. Glucose is the plant’s sugar that gives them flavour. It is stored as a form of starch.
A flavourless vegetable or fruit may not have been grown well but some vegetables and fruit originally have no flavours.
The dragon fruit, with white flesh, tops as the most tasteless fruit in the world, while the apples is one of the tastiest fruits.
Photosynthesis allows the plant to uptake carbon dioxide and release oxygen. For this reason, we should therefore plant more trees.
So, next time when you see a green plant, remember what I shared with you here today.
Carmel is 10 years old