Quote:
Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Corn is only eaten by cows...
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Of course. They do not have dentures, or maybe they do not need dentures because they eat corn. I read somewhere that Mexicans have very nice teeth because they eat a lot of it.
We are talking of sweet corn.
Spoiler:
Sweet corn (
Zea mays convar.
saccharata var.
rugosa;
[1] also called
Indian corn,
sugar corn, and
pole corn) is a variety of
maize with a high
sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring
recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to
starch inside the
endosperm of the corn kernel. Unlike
field corn varieties, which are harvested when the kernels are dry and mature (dent stage), sweet corn is picked when immature (milk stage) and prepared and eaten as a
vegetable, rather than a
grain. Since the process of maturation involves converting sugar to starch, sweet corn stores poorly and must be eaten fresh,
canned, or frozen, before the kernels become tough and starchy.
In
Latin America, sweet corn is traditionally eaten with beans; each plant is deficient in an
essential amino acid that happens to be abundant in the other, so together sweet corn and beans form a balanced diet.