Did you know that rain forests give us a lot of the food we eat every day like tomatoes, peppers, coconuts, bananas, coffee, tea, cocoa (to make chocolate), beans, sweet potatoes, spices and lots more?   Take a look at some of the food and spices that come from the tropical rain forest! 

avocado            banana       cassava        citrus fruits

         
coconut         guava        jackfruit      sweet potato

mango         papaya         lychee
     
        

pineapple         rice       sugarcane       tamarind
         

 yam             coffee
    

SPICES

black pepper       cardomom         cinammon        ginger

                                 


nutmeg & mace     tumeric           vanilla