{"id":6493,"date":"2024-09-01T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2024-09-01T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:37:05","slug":"corn-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/2024\/09\/01\/corn-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corn is a healthy grain and source of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It may promote eye and digestive health. Refined corn products, however, such as tortilla chips, offer fewer health benefits.<\/p>

\u201c<\/em>Also known as maize (Zea mays), corn is one of the world\u2019s most popular cereal grains. It\u2019s the seed of a plant in the grass family, native to Central America but grown in countless varieties worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Popcorn and sweet corn are popular varieties, but refined corn products are also widely consumed, frequently as ingredients in processed food.<\/p>

These include tortillas, tortilla chips, polenta, cornmeal, corn flour, corn syrup, and corn oil.<\/p>

Whole-grain corn is as healthy as any cereal grain, as it\u2019s rich in fiber and many vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.<\/p>

Corn is typically yellow but comes in a variety of other colors, such as red, orange, purple, blue, white, and black.<\/p>

This article tells you everything you need to know about corn.<\/p>

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    Corn is a healthy grain and source of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It may promote eye and digestive health. Refined corn products, however, such as tortilla chips, offer fewer health benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[23,25],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-foods","tag-healthy","tag-organic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/corn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growandgofoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}