Tropical fruits of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador used by the Maya for thousands of years. Fruits and nuts have always been part of Mayan diet, however, this tree 15 meters is described as a species new to science.
Most Mayan house gardens have fruit and nut trees surrounding the homes. most frequently used as coffee shade in El Salvador and western Guatemala. Many Mayan milpas the fruit and nut trees are not cut down when the rest of the forest is slashed and burned.
So fruits, nuts, and the soft flesh of seed pods such as Inga species have been a part of Mayan diet for a millennium.
Pacay fruit, notice the seed inside the fruit, the whitish and soft goo is the tasty edible part of the fruit.
