Some Fun Facts About Corn and Its Benefits

As we all know corn is the most available plant that you can find almost everywhere throughout the world. You can use corn to feed animal or processing them into food, or perhaps turn them into another important ingredients like the fructose corn syrup.


A few Simple fun facts about corn:

Corn has already become one of the main food supplies over thousands of years ago. Native Americans have already cultivated corn and even its represent mythological tradition in the era of Maya, Aztec and Inca. When Christopher Columbus first arrived in America, he found corn plants grow almost in every part of the continent. Starting from Chile to Canada, then they brought it and introduced them to Europe and the rest of the world.

You can growing corn crops almost everywhere with different soil condition because it is relatively easy to plant. Because they well adapting with its surrounding environment. There are different varieties and it keep on multiplying thanks to today advance agriculture researches and biotechnology.

However the basic types are flint, dent, sweet corn, pop corn, floury, waxy, and more. Some old folks even said that you can throw corn kernels on a land and it will eventually grow by itself.

There are around eight hundred kernels within sixteen rows. In average one hundred bushel of corn will have about seven million of kernels.

In US and mostly with the rest of the world, unlike any other plants or crops, you can enjoy corn production or harvesting of at least twice a year or even more because most of the time they are ready in about 60 to 90 days after planting the seed.

The value of corn is one of the most higher among any other commodities and it is remain as a major ingredients for many food on your table even most of the time we are tend to ignore their strong existence. Let’s think about it starting from baking powder, caramel, malt syrup, fructose, cookies, beer, margarine, infant formula, corn flakes , corn flour tortillas, corn oil and a lot (I seriously mean) a lot more. Can you imagine live without the corn?

What are corn oil benefits?

The first benefit of using corn oil in the cooking process is because they have this high smoke point, which means you can use corn oil too cook at high temperature. Oil with low smoke point such as olive oil, at high heat it can breaking down and forming free radicals which will cause oxidative damage and eventually will responsible for cancer.

So please make sure use only high smoke point cooking oil like corn and canola when you are going to cook at high temperature.


The second Corn oil benefits is that because it has this high polyunsaturated fat which is plant based fat and way more healthier than animal fat in general. So in other words you can enjoy corn oil benefits because it will lower the risk of getting heart disease, also lowering the risk of type two diabetes, as well as minimizing the risk of coronary artery disorders and will helps lower blood pressure level.

Despite the fact is has high polyunsaturated fat, corn oil also this smaller amount of saturated fat which can generate high cholesterol.

Last but not least, many people prefer to use corn oil because of its price benefits. Corn oil is relatively cheap compare to for instance olive oil which will cost you four or five times the price. So you can use fresh new corn oil for each cooking without worrying too much about the price, after all reusing used cooking oil is not healthy since it will form the free radicals that can cause cancer.

Enjoy your corn meals!