Traditions and tastes may vary but many cultures all have one thing in common on New Years: eating certain types of food on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day will bring good luck. Here is a list of 10 good luck foods to eat on New Year's from around the world to bring success and prosperity in 2015, via MSN.

Grapes: As the clock chimes twelve times for midnight on New Year's Eve, the Spanish and Portuguese will be popping twelve grapes into their mouths in time with the ringing bells. Challenge accepted!

Pork: Around the world, pork is often considered one of the luckiest foods to eat on New Year's Day because pigs are rotund, representing prosperity. They also "root forward" with their noses, symbolising progress and moving forward.

Smashing pomegranates: In Greece, a pomegranate is smashed on the floor in front of the door to break open the historical fruit on New Year's. The seeds that spill out represent prosperity and good fortune - the more seeds, the more luck!

Ring-shaped food: Circular food like bagels or doughnuts should be consumed for breakfast on New Year's, as they signify the year coming full circle.

Fish: These aquatic creatures bring luck in three-fold - their scales resemble coins, they travel in schools (which represents prosperity), and they swim forward, again representing progress in the same way that pigs do. Roasting a whole fish for lunch on New Year's Day puts those lucky scales on display.

Keep your noodles long: In Japan (and in many parts of Asia), long noodles symbolize long life. Cook up some bowls of buckwheat noodles and try to eat them without chewing or breaking them before they reach your mouth so that you get as much luck as possible out of them! Slurping is the key technique to long life.

Greens: These crunchy vegetables resemble paper money, so make sure to munch on veggies like cabbage, kale, or salad.

Hoppin' John: This dish composed of black-eyed peas and rice is customary in the American south for New Year's Day because black-eyed peas are thought to resemble coins.

Lentils: You guessed right - these babies look like coins too! In Brazil and Italy it is believed that eating lentils brings good luck. This isn't a new tradition either but one that may have existed since the Romans.

Bake a coin in your cake: Another Greek tradition is to bake a special lemon-flavored cake called a vasilopita and adding a coin to the batter. Whoever finds the coin gets a year of good luck! Just warn your guests to chew carefully.

Do you have special traditions to bring good luck into the New Year? Let us know what you plan to do to greet 2015 in the comments section below!