It’s not what you think!
I was looking for something to eat for meryenda before going home and there it was… CORN! Been awhile since I ate one and it was yummy!
The price of this tasty, hot, margarined and salted treat is now P17 on our area. How much is it in your place?
BASIC INFORMATION
Corn is a tall plant grass that has large ears with many seeds or kernels. These seeds grow in rows on the larger ears and are eaten as a vegetable. Corn is grown as food for both people and animals. Corn, also called maize, is a cereal grass related to wheat, rice, oats, and barley. It is a plant whose food value and wide variety of uses make it the most important crop grown in the United States and one of the most important in the world. In order of world grain production, corn ranks second after wheat and is followed by third-ranking rice.
The Manila galleon linking Manila to Acapulco traveled once or twice a year between the 16th and 19th centuries. Trade introduced foods such as corn, tomatoes, potatoes, chili peppers, and pineapples from the Americas.
NUTRITIONAL FACTS
The following nutrition information is for one serving of sweet corn. That would be about one medium (6-3/4″ to 7-1/2″ long) ear of sweet corn, or 90 grams. This general information is for any variety of raw yellow sweet corn.
PRODUCTS and USES
LINKS
http://thesecondgreenrevolution.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html
http://filipinolifeinpictures.wordpress.com/2008/05/page/3/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pr3ttyinpink/426181365/
http://www.orientalsuper-mart.com/ourstore/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn
http://nutrition.about.com/od/fruitsandvegetables/p/sweetcorn.htm
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