List of U.S. state foods

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This is a list of official U.S. state foods:

State	Food type	Food name	Image	Year & Citation
Alabama	State nut	Pecan		1982[1]
	State fruit	Blackberry		2004[2]
	State tree fruit	Peach		2006[3]
Arkansas	State fruit/vegetable	South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato		1987[4]
	State grain	Rice		2007[4]
Florida	State pie	Key lime pie
	State fruit	Orange		2005
Georgia	State prepared food	Grits	Grits, served with a waffle.	[5]
	State fruit	Peach
	State vegetable	Vidalia Sweet Onion
Idaho	State food	Potato
	State fruit	Huckleberry		2000
Illinois	State snack food	Popcorn		[6]
	State fruit	Apple		[citation needed]
Kentucky	State fruit	Blackberry		2004[7]
Louisiana	State fruit	Strawberry		1980
	State jellies	Mayhaw jelly and Louisiana sugar cane jelly		2003
	State meat pie	Natchitoches Meat Pie		2003
	State vegetable	Sweet potato		2003
Maine	State fruit	Wild blueberry		1991
Maryland	State food	Blue Crabs		1989
	State dessert	Smith Island Cake		2008
Massachusetts	State fruit	Cranberry
	State muffin	Corn muffin		[8]
	State bean	Baked navy bean		[9]
	State dessert	Boston cream pie		[10]
	State cookie	Chocolate chip cookie		[11]
	State donut	Boston cream donut		[12]
Minnesota	State fruit	Honeycrisp apple
	State grain	Wild rice
	State muffin	Blueberry muffin		[13]
	State mushroom	Morel
Missouri	State fruit	Norton Cynthiana grape
New Hampshire	State fruit	Pumpkin		[14]
New Jersey	State fruit	Highbush Blueberry		2004[15]
	State vegetable	Jersey Tomato		2006[16]
New Mexico	State cookie	Bizcochito		[17]
	State vegetables	Chiles and Frijoles (refried beans)	chile pepper refried beans	[18]
New York	State muffin	Apple muffin		[19]
	State fruit	Apple
North Carolina	State blue berry	Blueberry		2001[20]
	State red berry	Strawberry		2001[21]
	State fruit	Scuppernong Grape		2001[22]
	State vegetable	Sweet potato		1995[23]
North Dakota	State fruit	Chokecherry		2007
Oklahoma	State menu item	Barbecued pork		[24][25]
	State menu item	Chicken-fried steak
	State menu item	Sausage
	State menu item	Biscuits and gravy
	State menu item	Fried okra
	State menu item	Squash
	State menu item	Grits
	State menu item	Corn
	State menu item	Black-eyed peas
	State menu item	Cornbread
	State menu item	Pecan pie
	State fruit	Strawberries
	State vegetable	Watermelon	Although considered by most a fruit, in 2007 Oklahoma declared the watermelon as the state vegetable[citation needed]	2007
Oregon	State fruit	Pear
	State mushroom	Pacific Golden Chanterelle
	State nut	Hazelnut
Pennsylvania	State cookie	Chocolate chip cookie		[26]
Puerto Rico	National dish	Arroz con Gandules
Rhode Island	State fruit	Rhode Island Greening Apple
South Carolina	State fruit	Peach		1984[27]
	State snack food	Boiled peanuts		2006[28]
South Dakota	State dessert	Kuchen
	State bread	Fry bread
Tennessee	State fruit	Tomato		2003
Texas	State bread	Pan de campo		[29]
	State dish	Chili con carne
	State fruit	Texas Red Grapefruit
	State nut	Native pecan
	State pastries	Sopaipilla and Strudel	sopaipilla strudel
	State pepper	Jalapeño
	State native pepper	Chiltepin
	State snack	Tortilla chips and salsa	tortilla chips two types of salsa
Utah	State vegetable	Spanish sweet onion		2002[30]
	State fruit	Cherry		1997[31]
	State historic vegetable	Sugar beet		2002[30]
	State snack food	Jell-O		2001[32]
Vermont	State fruit	Apple
	State pie	Apple pie
Virginia	State meat	Virginia ham
Washington	State fruit	Apple		[33]
	State muffin	Blueberry
	State vegetable	Walla Walla Sweet Onion
	State tuber	Russet potato
West Virginia	State fruit	Golden Delicious apple
Wisconsin	State fruit	Cranberry
	State muffin	Cranberry

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[edit] References

In some cases where a reference in the chart above refers to more than one food item, it will be listed only with the first food item.

[edit] See also

• List of U.S. state beverages