Yellow Corn
What is the purpose of yellow corn?
Yellow dent corn or a closely comparable variety produced from it accounts for the majority of corn farmed in the United States today. 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.
Yellow dent corn or a closely comparable variety produced from it accounts for the majority of corn farmed in the United States today. 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.
As a food, maize is used to make a wide variety of dishes including Mexican tortillas and tamales, Italian polenta, and American hominy grits. Maize protein is low in some essential amino acids, and the niacin it contains only becomes available if freed by alkali treatment. In Mesoamerica, maize is personified as a maize god and depicted in sculptures.