Corn belongs to one of the three major staple foods in China, not only low calories, strong satiety, and nutritional value is the "golden food" in all cereals, the taste is soft and sticky and sweet, both as a staple food and as a vegetable, compared to the fine staple food, corn has become a healthy food that everyone respects, loved by most people, and more popular with fitness and fat loss people. The corn on the market now has yellow, white, purple, and purple and white, so what are the differences between them?
Variety/taste
Corn is divided into 2 main categories, sweet corn and waxy corn. Yellow is usually sweet corn; white, purple-black, purple-white is waxy corn (there is also a kind of waxy corn is yellow). Sweet corn is a vegetable, sticky corn is a grain.
sweet corn
Sweet corn, also known as vegetable corn, golden color, corn kernel moisture, high sugar content, fragrant taste, but also contains soluble sugar, starch content is relatively low, the taste is crisp and juicy, suitable for juicing, soup, barbecue and snacks.
Waxy corn
Glutinous corn is a new variety of evolution in the southwest region of China, than sweet corn contains more nutrients and better palatability, different from the juicy sweet corn, glutinous corn in the starch content is relatively high, so the taste is sticky, more powerful, a bite down full of fragrant sticky glutinous.
nutritive value
Corn contains some trace elements such as lecithin and lysine, as well as various minerals, proteins, etc., but corn contains different pigments and slightly different nutrients.
Yellow sweet corn is rich in lutein and vitamin A, which is especially good for the eyes.
White waxy corn has less vitamin A content, but vitamin E is rich, the dietary fiber content is 3.7 times that of sweet corn, and the taste is very delicate and soft after boiling, and it is also very easy to be chewed, easy to digest and absorb.
Purple and black waxy corn is black in color and has the highest nutritional value in the corn family. Purple and black waxy corn is rich in anthocyanins, its antioxidant properties are 20 times that of vitamin C, and it is known as "oral cosmetics" abroad. Colored sticks are hybridized and selected varieties, not genetically modified foods.
After introducing the difference between sweet corn and waxy corn, let's talk about eating corn.
Many people eat corn and only chew off the round parts of the corn kernels, and many small yellowish particles at the bottom of the corn kernels are left on the corn cob. Those particles are the essence of corn - corn germ, which is more nutritious than corn seeds, so it is best not to eat too fast when eating corn, and it is best to "uproot" the whole corn kernel intact.
Tips for boiling corn
When cooking corn, do not peel off the corn husks, leaving 2 layers of corn husks wrapped around the corn, the corn must be cut off the black part on the line, so that the boiled corn can retain the fragrance of the corn and rinse the corn. Put the corn into the pot, add the water that has not passed the corn, add a little salt, boil the water for about 10 minutes, add a little salt to strengthen the taste of the corn, make the corn taste more sweet.
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