Daily Journal
April 12th, 2017
There are more than 300 kinds of corn in the world, but the major types of corn eaten only four kinds, those are dent corn, flint corn, popcorn, and sweet corn. Dent corn, also known as yellow dent corn or field corn, is a variety of corn with a high soft starch content. This type is the most corn grown in the United States today. Dent corn is usually used in food manufacturing as the base ingredient for cornmeal flour, corn chips, tortillas, and taco shells. Flint corn is the common species corn which has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm. This type of corn preferred for making hominy, a staple food in the Americas since pre-Columbian times, and for making an ornament, notably as part of Thanksgiving decoration in the United States. Flint corn is often called "ornamental corn". Popcorn is a type of corn that expands from the kernel and puffs up like amaranth grain, sorghum, quinoa, and millet when heated. Popcorn is commonly eaten in movie theaters. This snack is usually served salted, sweetened, or in many different flavors. Sweet corn also called sugar corn and pole corn is a variety of corn with a high sugar content. This corn is usually used as the ingredient in making cream soup, stew, pudding, risottos, pasta, and ect. Those are the varieties of major corn around the world.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_corn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_corn
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