is corn a grain?
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Corn Is Not a Vegetable Friends, corn is not a vegetable. It’s not. We are perplexed as to when corn entered the American dietary lexicon as a veggie, because it’s a grain – and a really unhealthy grain at that. Corn is the most sugary, starchy, empty grain there is. You’re better off with white rice – seriously. (Not that we recommend eating a lot of white rice, because brown rice is higher in fiber and protein.) In fact, we hate corn.
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Grain Food Group Foods that are made or derived from barley, cornmeal, oats, rice, wheat, or another cereal grain are considered a grain product. The foodstuffs most readily identified, as grain products are grits, cereals, tortillas, bread, pasta, and oatmeal and breakfast cereals.
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Corn (Maize): Benefits, Nutrition, Side Effects and Information Like most grain producing grasses, corn is an annual that must be replanted each year. While corn originates in the New World, it is grown all over the world and used for a staggering array of products. Corn is far more productive than most cereal crops and able to sustain a higher population than relatives like wheat, rye, or rice. Corn grows in warm weather and usually matures in late summer.
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Corn: Natural Weight-Loss Food Corn is a low-fat complex carbohydrate that deserves a regular place on any healthy table. Unfortunately, as with many other naturally low-fat foods, the American tendency is to smother corn-on-the-cob with butter.But these high-fiber, fat-fighting kernels of goodness are better served with seasoning.Because corn is hearty and satisfying, it can curb your appetite.nfortunately, as with many other naturally low-fat foods, the American tendency is to smother corn-on-the-cob with butter. But these high-fiber, fat-fighting kernels of goodness are better served with seasoning. Because corn is hearty and satisfying, it can curb your appetite.
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corn Definition of CORN. 1. chiefly dialect: a small hard particle: grain. 2. 3. British: the grain of a cereal grass that is the primary crop of a region (as wheat in Britain and oats in Scotland and Ireland); also: a plant that produces corn.4.efinition of CORN for Kids. 1. : a tall American cereal grass plant widely grown for its large ears of starchy grain which come in many varieties. 2. : the seeds of a corn plant that are used especially as food for humans and animals and are typically yellow or whitish.
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- Corn is often classified as dent corn, flint corn, flour corn, popcorn, sweet corn, waxy corn, and pod corn. The remainder of this discussion will be concerned only with dent corn, which is the major type cultivated in the United States.
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Is corn a fruit, vegetable, or a nut? The entire corn cob is a multiple fruit. Corn kernels are seeds and the kernels is an ear. All the fruits of graminae are ears: this means seed heads made ​​up of many fruits (usually insignificant) growing together, precisely in an ear. When the fruits are ripe ears of generating seeds.
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- This Food is a Grand Slam. C VERS ALL BASES FOODFUELFEED Corn is an ingredient in many food items like cereal, peanut butter, snack foods and soft drinks.More than half of the U.S. Corn crop is used as feed for livestock.One acre of Corn can produce enough ethanol to run a car for some 72,000 miles on E-10 Unleaded.
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Corn Is Not a Vegetable But corn should not make up the veggie section of your meal plate, because it’s a high-glycemic sugarfest. In sum: corn is not a vegetable, and it’s a worthless grain. And yet, miraculously, it forms the basis of the American diet. The most maddening thing about all of this is that corn is the #1 ingredient in just about every processed food and fried food.
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Is corn a grain or a vegetable? Corn seed is actually a vegetable, a grain, and a fruit. Corn seed is a vegetable because it is harvested for eating. (Usually sweet corn when grain is harvested at the milk stage.) Corn seed is a grain because it is a dry seed of a grass species. (Usually field corn when harvested after the grain is relatively dry.) Corn seed is a fruit because that is the botanical definition. More details follow. Corn (Zea mays) is sometimes called a vegetable grain. Corn is a monocotyledon with only one seed leaf like grasses.
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Corn Growing Problems: Troubleshooting Corn is the only member of the grass family that we grow and eat as a vegetable. To come to harvest quickly corn requires warm temperatures, rich soil, and even, regular watering. Corn is wind-pollinated so planting in blocks or multiple rows to ensure pollination is important.
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Grains and Human Evolution So if you're of European descent, your ancestors have been eating grains for roughly 7,000 years. Corn was domesticated 9,000 years ago, but according to the carbon ratios of human teeth, it didn't become a major source of calories until about 1,200 years ago! Many American groups did not adopt a grain-based diet until 100-300 years ago, and in a few cases they still have not. If you are of African descent, your ancestors have been eating grains for 9,000 to 0 years, depending on your heritage.
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Background The major feed grains are corn, sorghum, barley, and oats. Corn is the primary U.S. feed grain, accounting for more than 95 percent of total feed grain production and use. 1  More than 90 million acres of land are planted to corn, with the majority of the crop grown in the Heartland region. 2  Most of the crop is used as the main energy ingredient in livestock feed.
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Maize Maize is the most widely grown grain crop throughout the Americas, with 361 million metric tons grown in the United States in 2014 (Production table). Approximately 40% of the crop—130 million tons—is used for corn ethanol. Genetically modified maize made up 85% of the maize planted in the United States in 2009.
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Are corn kernels considered a grain To a farmer at harvest, it would be grain; at planting time, it would be seed. And to a cook it might well be a vegetable most of the time, but a grain when making cornbread or tortillas. – jamesqf Jun 1 '15 at 1:34
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Whole Grains and Fiber Whole Versus Refined. The difference between refined grains (such as refined wheat, white flour, and white rice) and whole grains (such as whole-wheat flour, barley, cornmeal, oats, and popcorn) is that a whole grain still contains the nutrient rich germ and the fiber rich bran.
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Cornmeal © Denzil Green. Cornmeal is a very coarse meal made from certain types of sweet corn. To make cornmeal, corn kernels are removed from the cobs, dried, then ground coarsely. The corn used is usually Dent Corn. The Cornmeal may be white, yellow or blue, depending on the cultivar of Dent Corn used. The meal can be ground to different degrees of coarseness.
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- Here's the good, the bad, and the bottom line. The good. Corn is a whole-grain product, so you can include it in a healthy diet, Moore says. The goal is to get half your grains from a whole-grain source, so if you include corn, have half a cup. It also provides vitamin C and fiber.. And the Whole Grains Council points to research showing that corn has more antioxidants than any other grain. To get all of the good stuff, though, you have to read labels to be sure you're getting whole-grain corn. People love grits, but grits are not usually whole grain..
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Corn Corn is the most widely produced feed grain in the United States (U.S.), accounting for more than 95 percent of total production and use. The other three major feed grains are sorghum, barley, and oats. Most of the corn crop provides the main energy ingredient in livestock feed.
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CORN TRIVIA and FACTS (Maize) • Each tassel on a corn plant releases as many as 5 million grains of pollen. • Corn is an ingredient in more than 3,500 grocery products. • One bushel of corn can make 33 pounds of sweetener, 32 pounds of starch, or 2 1/2 gallons of ethanol fuel.
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- 1 An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows. 2  A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels. 3  100 bushels of corn produces approximately 7,280,000 kernels.  Each year, a single U.S. farmer provides food and fiber for 129 people - 97 in the U.S. and 32 overseas.
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Feed Grains Database Overview. This database contains statistics on four feed grains (corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats), foreign coarse grains (feed grains plus rye, millet, and mixed grains), hay, and related items. This includes data published in the monthly Feed Outlook and previously annual Feed Yearbook.
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- Corn has gathered a diverse reputation in the U.S. For some people, corn is a staple food that provides the foundation for tortillas, burritos, or polenta. For others, corn is a snack food that comes in the form of popcorn and corn chips. For still others, corn is a special summertime food that is essential at barbecues and cookouts. But regardless of its reputation, corn is seldom considered in the U.S. as a unique source of health benefits.
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Maize Maize (/ m eɪ z / MAYZ; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
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Is Corn Flour Considered Whole Grain? Corn Flour. Corn flour is made by milling whole grain corn kernels. As the seeds are milled, the three parts of the grain are flaked and ground, producing a flour containing the endosperm, the germ and the bran. This is considered a whole grain product and is called corn flour in most countries. Australia and England both have a product called corn flour that is different than other countries. Their corn flour is called cornstarch and is not a whole grain. It is made up of only the endosperm, the inner part of the corn kernel. White corn is used to produce white corn flour, which is also a whole grain. Masa Harina is a special kind of corn flour used to make tortillas. This flour is not a whole grain because in the process, the corn is soaked until the outer layer falls off and is removed before the corn is dried and ground.
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Grains vs. Seeds: Whatâs the Scoop? There is a lot of confusion in regard to grains; in fact, you’ll find most “healthy” food pyramids include them as the basis of a healthy diet. Grains, beans, nuts and seeds are all in the same family as they are actually all seeds.Grains grow from the seeds of grasses, such as wheat, corn, oats or rice.Nuts, such as almonds, pecans, and walnuts, come from the seeds of a tree. And then there are the ones we refer to as seeds directly, such as sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds.rass seeds like wheat or corn do not have fruit. They rely mainly on the wind to disperse their seeds as they weren’t designed by nature to be eaten. Grains are actually toxic to humans in their raw state. Before agriculture was invented, our ancestors were said to have eaten very few, if any, grains.