New World crops
The phrase "New World crops" is usually used to describe crops, food and otherwise, that were native to the New World before 1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time. Many of these crops are now grown around the world and have often become an integral part of the cuisine of various cultures in the Old World.
Notable among these crops are the Three Sisters: maize, winter squash, and climbing beans.
| Cereals | little barley, maize, maygrass, wild rice |
| Pseudocereals | amaranth, knotweed, goosefoot, sunflower, chia |
| Fruits | açaí, acerola, avocado, blueberry, cashew apple, cherimoya, American cranberry, curuba, feijoa, naranjilla or lulo, fox grape, guava, huckleberry, jabuticaba, jerivá, jurubeba, macaúba, papaya, pawpaw, passionfruit, peppers, persimmon, pineapple, pitanga, pitaya, prickly pear, soursop, garden strawberry, sugar-apple, tomato, tomatillo, tucum |
| Melons | chayote, squashes |
| Beans | common bean, lima bean, peanut, scarlet runner bean, tepary bean |
| Nuts | American chestnut, Araucaria, black walnut, Brazil nut, cashew, hickory, pecan, shagbark hickory |
| Roots and Tubers | arracacha, arrowroot, jicama, camas root, hopniss, leren, manioc, mashua or cubio, oca, potato, sweet potato, ulluco, yacón, sunroot |
| Fiber | agave, yucca, cotton |
| Other | achiote, balsam of Peru, canna, chicle, coca leaf, cocoa bean, cochineal, guarana, logwood, maple syrup, poinsettia flowers, rubber tree, tobacco, vanilla, yerba mate |
Timeline
The new world developed agriculture by at least 8000 BC. The following table shows when each New World crop was first domesticated.| Date | Crops | Location |
| 8000 BCE | Squash | Oaxaca, Mexico |
| 8000-5000 BCE | Potato | Peruvian Andes |
| 6000-4000 BCE | Peppers | Oaxaca, Mexico |
| 5700 BCE | Maize | Guerrero, Mexico |
| 5500 BCE | Peanut | South America |
| 5000 BCE | Avocado | Mexico |
| 4000 BCE | Common bean | Central America |
| 3400 BCE | Mexican cotton | Tehuacan Valley, Mexico |
| 2000 BCE | Sunflowers Other beans | |
| 1500 BCE | Cocoa | Mexico |
| 1500 BCE | Sweet potato | Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia |
| 500 BCE | Tomato | Mexico |