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Dent corn doesnt make popcorn nor can you eat it as sweet corn, it is a corn optimized for starch. If you want to eat it directly you must put a nixtamalizatio
by pixl97 7mo ago
Dent corn doesnt make popcorn nor can you eat it as sweet corn, it is a corn optimized for starch. If you want to eat it directly you must put a nixtamalization process on it or it doesn't have much nutritional value. Typically it's processed into starch process, or turned into fuel or fructose.
- gus_massa 7mo agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn > Dent corn is the variety used in food manufacturing as the base ingredient for cornmeal flour (used in the baking of cornbread), corn chips, tortillas, and taco shells. It is also used to make corn syrup. After a quick search, you need "flint" corn instead of "dent" corn for polenta (it appears to be similar to grits). I guess in case of an emergency anyone is better than nothing. Also, it would be much easier to switch if the people has the know-how. (I'm worried about the availability of enough seeds of the other corn.)