Can You Guess Which Foods Are Authentically American?

Native to: North America. By 200 BC, Native Americans had domesticated turkeys for their feathers which were used in rituals, ceremonies and clothing.

Native to: North America. Archeologists have discovered cultivated pumpkin seeds that are 8,000-10,000 years old in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Native to: Central Asia. There's evidence that humans have been eating and drying apples to store them through the winter since the Neolithic Era.

Native to: North America. They've been harvested for thousands of years by Native Americans, who used the plant as both food and medicine.

Native to: North America. They've been cultivated for over 7,000 years in Mexico. We have the Aztecs to thank for the invention of guacamole.

Native to: North America. "Pecan" is from an Algonquian word meaning “a nut requiring a stone to crack.”

Native to:Asia.The earliest known domestication of chickens occurred in Northern China around 8,000 BCE, as determined from archaeological sites there

Native to: North America. European settlers documented Native Americans foraging for cranberries to use as food, medicine and fabric dye.

Native to: India. The cucumber is among the oldest domesticated plants. They're mentioned in The Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000 year-old Sumerian poem.

Native to: North America. The Mokaya people of Chiapas, Mexico were drinking chocolate as early as 1,900 BCE. Mayans and Aztecs drank it, too.

Native to: South America. It is unclear whether tomatoes were first cultivated in Peru or in Mexico, but it is known that the Aztecs grew them.

Native to: North America. When colonists arrived, Algonquins and other tribes taught them how to harvest the delicious sweetener from maple trees.

Native to: South America. It was probably domesticated in Peru between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago. Columbus took the plant home with him to Europe.