Medicines and Edible Plants
You don't even realize it but you use stuff from the
rain forest every day. One of the most popular plants are the cocoa
bean trees. They supply the world's chocolate! You also get
products such as skin lotion, herbal tea, and chicle (chewing gum).
Another important product is rubber. It was first made by the sap
of a tree in the Amazon rain forest. Here are some foods we get from
the rain forest avocado, banana, grapefruit, lemon, lime, pepper, pineapple,
cashew nuts, coconut, coffee, tea, and many more. Also many life
saving medicines are found in the rain forest, that is just another reason
why we need to keep the rain forests of the world from being cut down.
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