Foods native to Turkey

Turkey appears on Micela as the origin of 17 foods and among the top producers of 17 more.

Food	Origin	kcal / 100 g
🍇 Grape	Caucasus and Anatolia	69
🌾 Wheat	Fertile Crescent	340
🥣 Oats	Near East, as a weed among wheat	389
🫛 Pea	Near East	81
🟤 Lentil	Near East	116
🟡 Chickpea	Southeastern Turkey	164
🥩 Beef	Cattle were domesticated in Anatolia and the Near East	257
🐖 Pork	Domesticated twice: Anatolia and China	248
🐑 Lamb	Zagros mountains and Anatolia	294
🥛 Milk	The oldest known dairying: Anatolia	61
🧈 Butter	Near East	717
🍦 Yogurt	Anatolia and the Balkans	61
🫒 Olive	Eastern Mediterranean	145
🍯 Honey	The oldest rock paintings of honey gathering: Spain	304
🍐 Pear	Asia: China and the Caucasus	57
🍒 Cherry	Between the Black and Caspian seas	63
🥙 Shawarma	Turkish döner and Levantine shawarma	159

What Turkey produces among the world's largest

Food	Origin	kcal / 100 g
🍎 Apple	Tian Shan mountains, Kazakhstan	52
🍓 Strawberry	A hybrid bred in France from a Chilean and a North American species	32
🍉 Watermelon	Northeastern Africa	30
🍋 Lemon	Northeastern India and Myanmar	29
🍅 Tomato	Wild in the Andes; domesticated in Mexico	18
🧅 Onion	Central Asia	40
🍆 Eggplant	India and southern China	25
🌰 Walnut	Persia and Central Asia	654
🌻 Sunflower	Eastern United States	582
🌶️ Chili	Wild in Bolivia; domesticated in Mexico	29
🍵 Tea	Southwestern China, Yunnan	1
🍈 Melon	Central and South Asia, between India and Persia	34
🍑 Peach	Eastern China, about 7,000 years ago	39
🍏 Green apple	The Granny Smith was born in Australia in 1868	58
🫑 Bell pepper	Mesoamerica	20
🥒 Cucumber	Himalayan foothills, India	15
🍝 Pasta	Italy made it famous; the oldest known noodles are from China	158

Among the 34 foods on this page with a full profile, per 100 g. The lightest is tea, at 1 kcal.

Origins and producing countries are approximate, under review against historical sources and FAOSTAT.