European ‘discovery’ of America was followed by dissemination of American food crops to different of the world. The Portuguese, being the earliest nation to arrive in India, became the agents introducing several American crops like maize, potato and capsicums in the country. The also introduced many ‘New World’ fruits the pineapple, Papaya, Sapodilla, and the Guava found acceptance and became part of Indian food a crop found in the Americas was brought the Portuguese to India during the sixteenth The Dutch traveler Linschoeten, who was in during the 1580s, provides a brief account of the of pineapple in India. The Portuguese the fruit from Brazil to India. It was initially an fruit but the rapid spread of pineapple in the country led to reduction in prices.i Fazl’s Ain-i-Akbari, written in the 1590s, mentions pineapple as one of the many ‘sweet’ fruits grown in Describing the fruit, Abul Fazl writes: are also called Kathal-i-Safari or Jackfruit travels because young plants, put into a vessel, may taken on travels, and will yield fruits. In color and they resemble an oblong orange and in taste and a mango. fruit introduced in India was the Papaya. who describes the fruit, wrote that the came to India by way of Philippines and It was initially highly regarded but it soon lost novelty. Since Abul Fazl does not mention the fruit, it certain that the papaya was not available in North in the late sixteenth century. In 1623, the Italian Pietro Della Valle came across the papaya in Daman. He characterized it as being similar taste and appearance to European melons but much (Psidium guajava) are native to Central America are believed to have been introduced to India by traders in the early 17th century