List of food origins
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This is a list of food items by the region of the world they originate or were domesticated in.
Items common to most regions
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]- Dandelion greens
Fruits
[edit]- Coconuts
- Cranberry (species are native to subarctic regions)
- Elderberry (not present in tropical regions)
- Mulberry
- Raspberry (not present in Africa)
- Wild strawberry (not present in Africa)
- Yellow plum (common to tropical regions, excluding North America, Europe, and West Asia)
Meats
[edit]Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Herbs/Spices
[edit]Other
[edit]- Birch syrup (produced from birch trees which are native to Europe, North Asia, and North America)
Africa
[edit]East Africa
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]Fruits
[edit]- Watermelon, originally from Northern Sudan.[4]
- Star gooseberry
Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Other
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West and Southern Africa
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]- Cowpea or black-eye peas
- Hausa groundnut
- Pigeon pea
- Yam
Fruits
[edit]- Ackee
- Baobab fruit (Adansonia digitata)
- Eta (Landolphia owariensis)
- Fluted gourd
- Liance
- Marula
- Miracle berry
- African peach
- Kiwano
- Kei apple
- Mobola plum (Parinari curatellifolia)
- Safou
- Tamarind
Meats
[edit]Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Other
[edit]Asia
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East and Southeast Asia
[edit]Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]- Adzuki bean (or red mung bean)
- Calabash (or bottle gourd)
- Ginseng
- Lolot pepper
- Radish
- Soybean
- Taro
- Water spinach
- Wax gourd
Fruits
[edit]- Akebi
- Assam fan palm (Livistona jenkinsiana)
- Asam paya (Eleiodoxa)
- Alupag
- Batoko plum
- Burmese grape (Baccaurea ramiflora)
- Button mangosteen
- Che
- Cherry
- Citrus fruits (Citron, Calamansi, Grapefruit, Kumquat, Mandarin, Lemon, Lime, Orange, Pomelo, and Tangerine)
- Cempedak
- Doub Palm
- Durian
- Dabai
- Gac
- Goji
- Goumi
- Hardy Kiwi
- Jambos
- Kadsura coccinea
- Kadamba
- Kiwifruit
- Kwai muk
- Lanzones
- Lapsi
- Longan
- Loquat
- Lychee
- Mangosteen
- Matoa
- Marang
- Maprang
- Mock Strawberry
- Peach
- Persimmon
- Pomelo
- Pulasan
- Pedalai
- Rambutan
- Rattan
- Red durian (Durio dulcis)
- Red-fleshed durian (Durio graveolens)
- Salak
- Starfruit
- Spiderberry
- Japanese barberry
- Monkfruit
- Yangmei
- Wampi
- Wax apple
- Velvet tamarind
- Phytocrene (Phytocrene oblonga)
- Diospyros decandra
- Cynometra cauliflora
- Uvaria grandiflora
Meats
[edit]Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Herbs/Spices
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Other
[edit]Southern Asia or Indian Subcontinent
[edit]Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]Fruits
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Herbs/Spices
[edit]Other
[edit]Western Asia or Middle East
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]Fruits
[edit]Meats
[edit]Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Herbs/Spices
[edit]Oceania
[edit]Australia
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Vegetables
[edit]Fruits
[edit]- Black apple
- Blue cherry
- Broad-leaf bramble
- Burdekin plum
- Bush banana
- Cedar Bay cherry
- Cluster fig
- Common apple-berry
- Conkerberry
- Davidson's plum
- Desert fig
- Desert lime
- Emu apple
- Fibrous satinash
- Finger lime
- Illawarra plum
- Kakadu lime
- Kakadu plum
- Karkalla
- Lady apple
- Lemon aspen
- Little gooseberry tree
- Midyim
- Mountain pepper
- Muntries
- Native cherry
- Native currant
- Pigface
- Purple apple-berry
- Quandong
- Riberry
- Sandpaper fig
- Snow berry
- Sweet apple-berry
- White aspen
- Wild orange
Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Meats
[edit]Other
[edit]Austranesia and New Guinea
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]- Aibika
- Air yam
- East Asian arrowroot (Kudzu)
- Eucheuma (sea moss or gusô)
- Fiji sago palm
- Fiveleaf yam
- Giant swamp taro
- Giant taro
- Highland pitpit
- Indian coral tree
- Joint fir
- Lengkuas
- Lesser yam
- Pako
- The Plentiful fig
- Polynesian arrowroot
- Sea grape
- Ti plant
- Torch ginger
- Ube (purple yam)
- Water chestnut
Fruits
[edit]- Antidesma montanum
- Banana
- Bignay
- Bilimbi
- Binukaw
- Blue tongue
- Breadfruit
- Button mangosteen
- Breadnut
- Cempedak
- Dracontomelon costatum
- Dragon plum
- Fe'i banana
- Dye Fig
- Ficus wassa
- Hala fruit
- Galo
- Golden apple
- Hala Fruit
- Island lychee
- Jackfruit
- Java apple
- Lipote
- Mangosteen
- Nypa fruticans
- Marang
- Marata
- Marianas breadfruit
- Millaa millaa vine
- Monkey jack
- Mo'onia fruit
- Mountain apple
- Noni
- Rambutan
- Rattan fruit
- Rukam
- Santol
- Star fruit
- Tal palm
- Tipuho
- Velvet apple
- Water apple
Meats
[edit]Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Herbs/Spices
[edit]- Bitter ginger
- Clove
- Cubeb
- Ginger
- Lemongrass
- Nutmeg tree (origin of Nutmeg and Mace)
- Pangi
- Pandan
Other
[edit]Europe
[edit]Northern Europe, Western Europe and Eastern Europe
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]Fruits
[edit]- Barberry (Berberis vulgaris)
- Blackcurrant
- Briançon apricot
- Bilberry
- Cherry
- Cloudberry
- Date-plum (Diospyros lotus)
- Dewberry
- Elderberry
- Garden strawberry (domesticated variety)
- Gooseberry
- Guelder rose
- Hawberry
- Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
- Lingonberry
- Juniper berry
- Pear
- Plum
- Red raspberry
- Redcurrant
- Rose hip
- Sloe
- Whortleberry
Meats
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Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Herbs/Spices
[edit]Southern Europe or Mediterranean
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Vegetables
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Fruits
[edit]Herbs/Spices
[edit]Americas
[edit]North America
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]Fruits
[edit]- American persimmon
- American plum
- American raspberry
- Beach plum
- Black cherry
- Black raspberry
- Blackberry
- Blueberry
- Buffaloberry
- Canada plum
- Canadian serviceberry
- Chokecherry
- Desert apricot
- Dewberry
- Eastern may hawthorn
- Fox grape
- Ground plum
- Huckleberry
- Maypop
- Pawpaw
- Red mulberry
- Salal
- Salmonberry
- Saskatoonberry
- Saw palmetto
- Thimbleberry
- Toyon
- Wintergreen
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Meats
[edit]Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Herbs/Spices
[edit]Other
[edit]Central America and Caribbean
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]- Maize (corn)
Vegetables
[edit]- Common bean or Pole bean
- Jicama
- Prickly pear cactus
- Scarlet runner bean or Butter bean
- Squash species (acorn squash, butternut squash, pumpkin, and zucchini)
- Strangler fig
- Yucca
- Zucchini
Fruits
[edit]Herbs/Spices
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Other
[edit]South America
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Grains/Cereals
[edit]Vegetables
[edit]Fruits
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Meats
[edit]Seeds/Nuts
[edit]Herbs/Spices
[edit]Other
[edit]See also
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- Ark of Taste – Catalogue of endangered foods
- List of culinary fruits
- List of culinary herbs and spices
- List of culinary nuts
- List of dried foods
- List of edible seeds
- List of snack foods
- List of vegetables
- Local food – Food produced within a short distance of where it is consumed
- Neolithic Revolution – Transition in human history from hunter-gatherer to settled peoples
- New World crops – Crops native to the New World
References
[edit]- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
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- ↑ "Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench)", pp. 216–224 in: Muimba-Kankolongo, Ambayeba (2018). "Vegetable Production". Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa. pp. 205–274. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-814383-4.00011-6. ISBN 978-0-12-814383-4.
- ↑ Renner, Susanne S.; Wu, Shan; Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A.; Silber, Martina V.; Fei, Zhangjun; Chomicki, Guillaume (24 May 2021). "A chromosome-level genome of a Kordofan melon illuminates the origin of domesticated watermelons". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (23) e2101486118. Bibcode:2021PNAS..11801486R. doi:10.1073/pnas.2101486118. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 8201767. PMID 34031154.
- ↑ Francis, John K. "Coffea arabica L. Rubiaceae" (PDF). Factsheet of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2007.
- ↑ "Catha edulis (Vahl) Endl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
- ↑ "Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
