AY Honors/Native American Foods

The plant foods in the list below were introduced by the Native Americans. Items in bold are known to have retained their Native American names.

Agave Achiote Avocado Bay leaf (Umbellularia californica) Blueberry (Vaccinium sp) Brazil nut Bell pepper Black Walnuts (Juglans sp.) Cashew Cassava Cherimoya (custard apple) Chia

Chicle (chewing gum) Chili pepper Cocoa Cranberry Green Bean Guava Hazelnut (Corylus sp.) Hickory nut (Carya sp.) Jerusalem artichoke Lambs quarters Maize (corn) Maple syrup

Papaya Pawpaw Peanut Pecan Pineapple Pine nuts (Pinus sp.) Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) Prickly pear Potato Pumpkin Quamash Quinoa ("keen-wa")

Squash Sunflower Sweet Potato Tepary bean Tomato Vanilla Wild rice Wintergreen Yambean Yucca

(Word origin of some of these verified at Etymology Online.)