• Amazon Region - Amazonas, Pará and Maranhão native food, basically fish, crabs, or game from the forest, local fruits, seeds, herbs and roots.

• Northern Region - Ceará, Piauí, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Alagoas.

• Mainly seafood dishes, seasoned with coconut oil and milk, flour and jerked meat with beans and roots.

• Bahia State - The state, where most of the black population settled, has some African influence in dishes such as Vatapá, Acarajé, using the oil extracted from the "Dendê" in almost every dish. Mostly seafood (shrimps, crabs) is very spicy.

• Minas Gerais State - The so called homemade food, in a country style, is made mainly of pork meats, beans, cheese and milk.

• Rio de Janeiro - The carioca "Feijoada", made of black beans, assorted meats from pork to ox, cabbage, manioc flour is always served with the national appetizer - caipirinha.

Brazilian Fruit

The diversity of fruits amazes anyone; the production is exuberant and features tropical fruits such as pineapple, bananas, cashew, passion fruit, papaya, and cold-climate fruits as melons, grapes, apples. The Amazon Region is prodigal in exotic fruits like bacuri, cupuassu, jenipapo, mangaba, tapereba. Delicious fruit-juices are made of these fruits and are available in most Brazilian capitals.