corn products white corn are processed into cornflake cereals.

Corn is the main ingredient, out of only four ingredients in total, in Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. The corn used for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes is a variety of corn grown by farmers in Argentina, where the conditions are ideal for this crop to thrive.

Manufacturing of corn flakes starts with milling process that removes the corn kernels from the cobs and turns them into flake sized ‘grits’. Malted barley can be added to enhance the flavor of the Corn Flakes. The corn grits are cooked in steam pressure cookers, at temperatures exceeding 100C.

The most common types of corn are flint, dent, sweet, and popcorn.

• Flint corn has much harder kernels, and usually comes in more than one color, commonly white, yellow, and/or red.
• Dent corn gets its name from the little dent that forms in the kernels as they dry.

11 Top-Rated Sweet Corn Selections to Grow at Home

• Ambrosia Hybrid. Yep, that’s right – ambrosia like the custard.
• Blue Hopi.
• Golden Bantam.
• Honey Select Hybrid.
• Jubilee Hybrid.
• Nirvana Hybrid.
• Peaches and Cream.
• Picasso Hybrid.

Among the most popular standard corn varieties are Silver Queen, renowned for its large ears, sweet taste, and super-white kernels (the queen, really, of sweet corn); Jubilee, popular for its high yield and tender yellow kernels; and Butter and Sugar, which is defined by its mix of white and yellow kernels.

Most of the crop is used as the main energy ingredient in livestock feed. Corn is also processed into a multitude of food and industrial products including starch, sweeteners, corn oil, beverage and industrial alcohol, and fuel ethanol.

Read food labels for some of the most common corn by-product names, including:

• Corn flour, cornmeal. corn gluten, cornflakes, etc.
• Cornstarch, also listed on labels as starch or vegetable starch.
• Corn oil.
• Corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup.
• Dextrins.
• Maltodextrins.
• Dextrose.
• Fructose or crystalline fructose.

Breakdown of corn’s major uses: * Food products — Cereals, snack foods, salad dressings, soft drink sweeteners, chewing gum, peanut butter, hominy grits, taco shells and other flour products, specialty corn including white corn, blue corn and popcorn .

Toothpaste uses sorbitol, usually derived from corn, to create the flavor and texture that makes toothpaste, well, toothpaste.

Shampoo: Citric acid is a common ingredient in shampoos and conditioners and is derived from corn. Diapers: Corn starch is used to soak up moisture in diapers.

Overview

Maize is an important cereal crops in the world. It provides staple food to many populations. In developing countries maize is a major source of income to farmers among whom many are resource- poor. Maize cultivation in the world is limited by diseases which cause grain loss of about 11% of the total production.

Popcorn (popped corn, popcorns or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names are also used to refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion.

Premade popcorn often contains a high level of salt, or sodium. Eating too much sodium can cause high blood pressure and lead to other health complications. Some brands also include a lot of sugar. Added butter, sugar, and salt can make popcorn an unhealthful snack.

All of the various cultivated maize crops were made by humans through about 10,000 years of cultivation, selective breeding, hybridization, and other similar processes. Popcorn is a sub-species of maize that was man-made over 3,000 years ago.