America
Corn, beans and squash were domesticated in Mesoamerica around 3500 BCE. Potatoes and manioc were domesticated in South America. In what is now the eastern United States, Native Americans domesticated sunflower, sumpweed and goosefoot around 2500 BCE.
| Cereals | Maize (corn), maygrass, and little barley |
|---|---|
| Pseudocereals | Amaranth, quinoa, erect knotweed, sumpweed, and sunflowers |
| Pulses | Common beans, tepary beans, scarlet runner beans, lima beans, and peanuts |
| Fiber | Cotton, yucca, and agave |
| Roots and Tubers | Jicama, manioc (cassava), potatoes, sweet potatoes, sunchokes, oca, mashua, ulloco, arrowroot, yacon, leren, and groundnuts |
| Fruits | Tomatoes, chili peppers, avocados, cranberries, blueberries, huckleberries, cherimoyas, papayas, pawpaws, passionfruit, pineapples, soursops and strawberries |
| Melons | Squashes |
| Meat and poultry | turkey, bison, muscovy ducks, and guinea pigs |
| Nuts | Peanut, black walnuts, shagbark hickory, pecans and hickory nuts |
| Other | Chocolate, Canna, tobacco, Chicle, rubber, maple syrup, birch syrup and vanilla |
| Date | Crops | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 7000 BCE | Maize | Mexico |
| 5000 BCE | Cotton | Mexico |
| 4800 BCE | Squash Chili Peppers Avocados Amaranth |
Mexico |
| 4000 BCE | Maize Common Bean |
Mexico |
| 4000 BCE | Ground Nut | South America |
| 2000 BCE | Sunflowers Beans |
Read more about this topic: List Of Food Origins
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