Does anyone know of a good authoritative list of common "New World" foods?

It's interesting news to me that tomatoes may be a New World food. I'm a big
fan of tomatoes but I've always been a little nervous about their high
glutamate content.

-gts


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From: "Ingrid Bauer/J-C Catry" <[log in to unmask]>
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> >Then there is the problem of New World foods, which entered the
> >human food supply only recently.  If the idea is to exclude foods
> >to which we haven't had hundreds of thousands of years to adapt,
> >then these must be excluded.  But some New World foods, such as
> >tomatoes and strawberries, are considered paleo and are even used
> >in Neanderthin recipes.
>
> strawberries are natives of europe too.
>
> jean-claude
>