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Origins of Fruits | Fruit

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Planning an all-American picnic or a patriotic potluck? What’s on the menu? It might surprise you to know that, despite their familiarity, the origins of common fruits and vegetables popular in the American diet are often from elsewhere.

Many traditional favorites such as tomatoes, cabbage, watermelon, peaches and apples are native to other parts of the world. The list goes on with green beans, carrots, lima beans, okra, and sweet potatoes. All of these fruits and vegetables may be at the center of established North American cuisine, but they aren’t native to the region. They were brought here by people immigrating to the United States with a desire to have access to the fruits and vegetables they enjoyed back home.

Just as the families of most who live in the U.S. and Canada came from other countries, much of the food we grow in our vegetable gardens, pick from our orchards, and heap on our dinner plates were eaten first far from our shores. Here are a few of the best traveled of our favorite fruits and vegetables: