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The corn used for ethanol production isn't the human-edible sweet corn though. Wrong plant.
by SAI_Peregrinus 7y ago
The corn used for ethanol production isn't the human-edible sweet corn though. Wrong plant.
- war1025 7y agoDent corn is still edible, it just needs to be nixtamalized first to unlock more of the nutrients. [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoTrue, but nixtamilization isn't used at the scales needed for this, we'd need to build new processing plants. That'd probably take about as long as just growing new sweet corn instead.