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It is digestible post processing like after nixtamalization to turn it into masa. No 2 corn is used in tortillas, snack foods and other processed corn products.

• Aperocky 4y ago
  To add to that I'm sure this country eat more tortillas than actual corn...
• lumost 4y ago
  This also hints that our food production is more complex than you would first expect, in a true food crunch there are likely many substitute diet options which can be made by processing inedible agriculture products or repurposing fields.
• wrycoder 4y ago
  All you have to do is dry and grind it to make cornmeal. It's quite digestible, and keeps very well, like wheat. (I've never tried eating it fresh like sweet corn, may have to add that to the bucket list.) A problem is it is lacking in free niacin, which can result in pellagra, if the diet is principally corn meal. Nixtamalization corrects that[0]. Without nixtamalization, cornmeal doesn't form a dough. You can make corn bread, but not tortillas. Corn chips, e.g. Fritos, and corn bread don't use nixtamalized corn, but they are quite digestible! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization