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Received: 19 April 2022

Accepted: 4 October 2022

First Online: 10 November 2022

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: There is no conflict of interest of the authors of this work. As it is an article in which a historical fact is studied, specifically the expansion of banana cultivation in the American continents during the 16th century, there is no possibility of obtaining any economic benefit or producing any type of damage in the territories involved in the process or its inhabitants. This implies that there is no possibility of violating any ethical standard. The protagonists of the process studied here are the people who made it possible, the Native Americans. These, through a network of transmission of knowledge and crops, which had centuries of experience, managed to carry out this expansion with such rapidity that many previous researchers doubted that it was possible.This work has been funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, with a project registered with the PID number 2019-104199GB-I00-. Its title is “Lexical Americanisms in the Spanish and English languages documented in texts about America prior to 1700 : AMERLEX-DATABASE.”Both authors are responsible for the idea, the research, and the writing of the article. Marcos Salas-Pascual, a botanist and ethnobotanist, provided the botanical knowledge that resolved many historical doubts and provided information regarding the identification of the various varieties of bananas and other species mentioned in the text. Teresa Cáceres-Lorenzo, doctor in philology and expert in the history of the Spanish in the Americas, contributed with the knowledge of the authors and the works used for the study.All data found in this work is available for your use, indicating its source.