How Plants Make Their Own Food

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Hey friends! Did you know plants make their own food? Let's find out how these green plants cook up a tasty meal using sunshine, water, and air! First, roots dig deep into the soil to soak up water, like a straw sipping a drink, then send it up the stem to the leaves. Next, leaves open tiny pores to breathe in carbon dioxide from the air, the same gas we breathe out every day. Inside each leaf, green chlorophyll catches sunlight like a solar panel, capturing its energy for the plant to use. Using that sunlight energy, the plant combines water and carbon dioxide to make sweet sugar for energy and growth, releasing fresh oxygen into the air. So remember: sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide help plants make sugar and release oxygen. Hooray for plants!