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.
Vegetables
- Dandelion greens
Fruits
- 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
Seeds/Nuts
Herbs/Spices
Other
- Birch syrup (produced from birch trees which are native to Europe, North Asia, and North America)
Africa
East Africa
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West Africa
Grains/Cereals
Vegetables
- Cowpea or black-eye peas
- Hausa groundnut
- Pigeon pea
- Yam
Fruits
Meats
Seeds/Nuts
Other
Asia
East and Southeast Asia
Grains/Cereals
Vegetables
- Adzuki bean (or red mung bean)
- Calabash (or bottle gourd)
- Ginseng
- Lolot pepper
- Radish
- Soybean
- Taro
- Water spinach
- Wax gourd
Fruits
Meats
Seeds/Nuts
Herbs/Spices
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Other
Southern Asia or Indian Subcontinent
Grains/Cereals
Vegetables
Fruits
Herbs/Spices
Other
Western Asia or Middle East
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Grains/Cereals
Vegetables
Fruits
Meats
Seeds/Nuts
Herbs/Spices
Oceania
Australia
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Vegetables
Fruits
- Black apple
- 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
- Quandong
- Riberry
- Sandpaper fig
- Snow berry
- Sweet apple-berry
- White aspen
- Wild orange
Seeds/Nuts
Meats
Other
Austranesia and New Guinea
Grains/Cereals
Vegetables
- 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
- Antidesma montanum
- Banana
- Bignay
- Bilimbi
- Binukaw
- Blue tongue
- Breadfruit
- Button mangosteen
- Breadnut
- Cempedak
- Dracontomelon costatum
- Dragon plum
- Fe'i banana
- Dye Fig
- Ficus wassa
- Galo
- Golden apple
- Hala Fruit
- Island lychee
- Jackfruit
- Java apple
- Lipote
- Mangosteen
- 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
Seeds/Nuts
Herbs/Spices
- Bitter ginger
- Clove
- Cubeb
- Ginger
- Lemongrass
- Nutmeg tree (origin of Nutmeg and Mace)
- Pangi
- Pandan
Other
Europe
Northern Europe
Grains/Cereals
Vegetables
Fruits
- Blackcurrant
- Briançon apricot
- Cloudberry
- Garden strawberry (domesticated variety)
- Gooseberry
- Guelder rose
- Hawberry
- Lingonberry
- Pear
- Red raspberry
- Redcurrant
- Sloe
- Bilberry
Meats
Seeds/Nuts
Herbs/Spices
Southern Europe or Mediterranean
Vegetables
Fruits
Herbs/Spices
Americas
North America
Grains/Cereals
Vegetables
Fruits
- 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
Seeds/Nuts
Herbs/Spices
Other
Central America and Caribbean
Grains/Cereals
- Maize (corn)
Vegetables
- 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
Fruits
Herbs/Spices
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