Corn... Food of the season
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Corn
What vegetable is more synonymous with the coming of summer than
freshly picked corn on the cob? Although corn is now available in
markets year-round, it is the locally grown varieties that you can
purchase during the summer months that not only tastes the best but
are usually the least expensive.
>>> http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=90
In North American usage, the cereal crop maize, also called field corn
or Indian corn; including the variety sweet corn, which is often
considered a vegetable.
Traditionally, and still outside North America, corn is a general word
for cereal crops and their grain including:
Wheat
Barley
Oat
Rye
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn
Sweet corn (Zea mays var. rugosa[1]), also called indian corn,
sweetcorn (the only term usual in British English), sugar corn, pole
corn, or simply corn, is a variety of maize with a high sugar content.
Sweet corn is the result of a naturally-occurring recessive mutation
in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the
endosperm of the corn kernel. Unlike field corn varieties, which are
harvested when the kernels are dry and fully mature (dent stage),
sweet corn is picked when immature (milk stage) and eaten as a
vegetable, rather than a grain. Since the process of maturation
involves converting sugar into starch, sweet corn stores poorly and
must be eaten fresh, canned, or frozen before the kernels become tough
and starchy.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_corn
