Europe brought wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, and diseases such as small pox and measles to the Americas. The Americas brought gold, silver, corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate and Syphilis to Europe.Other crops brought from Africa included peanuts (originally from South America), millet, sorghum, guinea melon, liquorice, watermelon, and sesame (benne). Over time, these foods found their way into American footways and became a basic component of southern cuisine.East Asian cuisine Examples of staple foods include rice, noodles, mung beans, soybeans, seafood (Japan has the highest per capita consumption of seafood), mutton (Mongolia), bok choy (Chinese cabbage), and tea.