Health & Wellness

1. Foods
2. sweet corn

sweet corn

This favorite yellow vegetable is high in vitamin A, and is also a good source of vitamins B and C and potassium. To get the most nutritional benefits from your corn, cook it to increase the ferulic acid and overall antioxidant activity.

Trivia

Maize is the proper word for corn, taken from the Indians of the New World who introduced it to European explorers and settlers. The word corn goes back to Biblical days, and means any particle of grain or any small pellet of anything. In some lands, corn meant wheat; in others it meant barley or oats. Only Americans adopted the word to describe maize.

In many American dialects, the word for corn meant, "that which gives us life." Indeed, corn was the dietary staple of Indians. Aztec and Mayan civilizations were built on a corn economy, as corn provided food, currency, fuel, fodder for animals, silk for smoking, sugar and even fermented beverages.