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  2. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    Helmeted guinea fowl in tall grass. Many foods were originally domesticated in West Africa, including grains like African rice, Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Fonio; tree crops like Kola nut, used in Coca-Cola, and Oil Palm; and other globally important plant foods such as Watermelon, Tamarind, Okra, Black-eye peas, and Yams. [2]

  3. Caragana arborescens - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] The seeds are edible by humans and chickens, but should be cooked before being consumed by people. [9] [7] Caragana arborescens contains the non proteinogenic amino acid L-canavanine and may store from nearly 6 to 13% L-canavanine by dry weight. [10] It is recommended for planting in the outer rows of multi-row plantings.

  4. Pea - Wikipedia

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    A traditional approach to supporting climbing peas is to thrust branches pruned from trees or other woody plants upright into the soil, providing a lattice for the peas to climb. Branches used in this fashion are called pea sticks [9] or sometimes pea brush. Metal fences, twine, or netting supported by a frame are used for the same purpose. In ...

  5. Fabaceae - Wikipedia

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    It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit and their compound, stipulate leaves. The family is widely distributed, and is the third-largest land plant family in number of species, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae , with about 765 genera and nearly 20,000 known species.

  6. Taste tradition: Why we eat black-eyed peas, greens, and ...

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    On Dec. 31, 1862, free and enslaved Black people gathered — some publicly, some quietly — to ring in the new year and await news that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed on Sept. 22, 1862 ...

  7. List of food plants native to the Americas - Wikipedia

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    When complete, the list below will include all food plants native to the Americas (genera marked with a dagger † are endemic), regardless of when or where they were first used as a food source. For a list of food plants and other crops which were only introduced to Old World cultures as a result of the Columbian Exchange touched off by the ...

  8. It took Texas to make America swallow the idea of lucky New Year’s black-eyed peas. More than 85 years ago, in 1937, an East Texas promoter put the first national marketing campaign behind what ...

  9. Founder crops - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, the Israeli botanist Daniel Zohary and the German botanist Maria Hopf formulated their founder crops hypothesis. They proposed that eight plant species were domesticated by early Neolithic farming communities in Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent) and went on to form the basis of agricultural economies across much of Eurasia, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North ...