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Foods and vegetables from Latin America (and some from North America) that were brought to the rest of the world

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The number is vast, too large to fit in this space, but just to name a few: Maize (corn), maygrass, little barley, Pseudo-cereals like Amaranth, quinoa, erect knotweed, sumpweed, and sunflowers.  Common beans, tepary beans, scarlet runner beans, lima beans, and peanuts. Mexican cotton, yucca, and agave. Jicama, manioc (cassava), potatoes, sweet potatoes, sunchokes, oca, mashua, ulloco, arrowroot, yacon, leren, and groundnuts. Tomatoes, chili peppers, avocados, cranberries, blueberries, huckleberries, cherimoyas, papayas, pawpaws, passionfruit, pineapples, soursops and strawberries. Melons    Squashes. Nuts    Peanut, black walnuts, shagbark hickory, pecans, hickory nuts, acorns from oak trees, pinion pine nuts, cashew nuts.  Chocolate, canna, tobacco, chicle, rubber, maple syrup, birch syrup and vanilla.