Corn
Corn is native to the Americas. It grew wild from Eastern North America almost to the tipoff South America. Indian started planting it in gardens at least 5000 years ago. They even raised popcorn. Some Indians ground their corn into flour and made bread. Others made very flat, round corn pancakes.
Columbus took corn to Europe, and from there it spread to other continents.
Today corn is popular and important food in the Americas. However, farmers use most of it to feed to cattle, pigs, and chickens are sweetened with corn sugar. People use corn oil for cooking .corn is also used to make paper and industrial alcohol.
Coffee
Coffee is the favorite hot drink in almost all countries. Coffee break is an important part of life in United States.
An old story says that coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia. Men taking care of the sheep noticed that the sheep stayed awake all night when they ate coffee beans and leaves.
Coffee first used as a food, then a kind of wine, and then medicine. It became a drink about 700 years ago.
People took coffee to Arabia in thirteenth century. From there it went to Turkey, Europe, and the Americas.
In 1963 the United Nations helped organize in international Coffee Agreement. Countries that export coffee agree on the price .This agreement helps Brazil and the other exporting countries get a fair price.
Sugar
Sugar cane is a kind of grass. It is a relative of corn and bamboo. No one has ever found a wild sugar plant, so no one is sure where the plant came from. Scientists think it probably came from Southeast Asia. Farmers were raising sugar cane in India by 300B.C. It reached china before the first century B.C and also moved slowly west to Persia. When the Arabs won a war against Persia, they introduced throughout the Middle East, Sicily, and Spain. Columbus took it to the new world.
Peanuts
Peanuts are also called groundnuts because they grow underground. A peanut is not really a nut. It is a relative of beans and peas.
The peanut is a native of tropical South America.
Wild peanuts plants sill grow there. Farmers raised peanuts at least 2000 years before Columbus went to the Americas.
The Portuguese took peanuts to Europe and Africa, and the African slaves took them to North America.
Today peanuts are raised in warm areas all over the world. In West Africa, the peanut is an important food. In most countries peanuts are used for oil. However, in the United States they are used for candy and peanut butter and to feed to animals
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