Can corn be eaten raw?
"Fruit corn" can be eaten raw and cooked.
Sweet corn or fruit corn is a kind of super sweet corn suitable for raw eating. It can be eaten raw directly. Its thin skin is broken at the first bite. Its fragrant juice overflows its cheeks. It is especially sweet and crisp when eaten raw and cooked. Like fruit, it is called "fruit corn". Other corn is generally difficult to eat raw, and few people try to eat raw.
Fruit maize has been widely planted since the 1980s, but it has only attracted the attention of consumers in recent two years. Compared with common maize, fruit maize is rich in vitamins, minerals and free amino acids. It also has the characteristics of thin skin, juicy and high sugar content.
Fruit corn is not a genetically modified food
Sweet corn is one of the main vegetables in developed countries such as Europe, America, Korea and Japan. It is popular among consumers of all walks of life because of its rich nutrition, sweet, fresh, crisp and tender characteristics. It refers to the new sweet corn varieties developed by traditional breeding techniques, such as breeding inbred lines and mating hybrids, on the basis of naturally mutated sweet corn varieties, which have nothing to do with GM technology.
How to distinguish sweet corn from sweet corn
Because ordinary maize is yellow or white, it is impossible to completely distinguish sweet maize from waxy maize in color. If it is yellow corn, it is sweet corn; if it is white corn, it is waxy corn. The real sweet corn is the bright yellow corn with neat grains and smooth surface; the common yellow corn is irregular in arrangement and the grains are convex and concave.
Notices for Eating Sweet Corn Raw
Fresh sweet corn, fruit corn and so on can be eaten raw, the taste is very special, corn fragrance with a trace of sweetness. The moisture, active substances, vitamins and other nutrients in fresh maize are much higher than those in mature maize, and their nutritional value is also higher.
However, it's better to wash it with water like eating fruit, pay attention not to eat too much at a time, and because the nutrient content of corn will decline rapidly during the storage process, it's better to eat those that have just been harvested.
Corn cooked is better than raw.
Although sweet corn can be eaten raw, in general, cooked corn is better than raw corn. Because cooking, although losing part of vitamin C to sweet corn, has gained more nutritional value and higher antioxidant activity.
At the same time, cooked corn also releases a phenolic compound, lysine, which has a certain curative effect on cancer and other diseases. After high temperature cooking, the activity of antioxidant free radicals in Maize increased, and oxygen free radicals can cause oxidative damage and increase the risk of disease.