Corn (Zea mays L.) or maize, as it is known in Europe and other part of the world originated in the western hemisphere.
The United States produces more than half of the corn grown in the world, and more than three-fourth of this corn is grown in the region known as the Corn Belt.
Corn is a cereal, a type of grass that produces a grain people and animal eat.
Although it is now grown around the world, production of field corn in the United States exceeds in any other country and is usually about equal to that of the rest of the world put together.
Many people in North America eat corn on the cob, and heat corn kernels to make popcorn, but most corn is used to make thousands of different product.
Field corn is entirely different as a food crop from the sweet corn that is harvested immature in summer and cooked fresh on the cob or cut from the cob in food plants and preserved by canning or freezing later consumer us as a vegetable.
A very small part of the field corn crops of white corn varieties used for making the hominy grits while corn meal sold at retail, the grits being use as vegetable menu item or hot breakfast cereal, and the meal for making white corn bread and muffin.
Milling of cereals is an ancient art, The objective is to make cereals more palatable or to isolate attempts to remove the bran fractions.
Corn flour is produced either by wet milling or dry milling methods. In wet milling, corn is cleaned from broken kernels. chaff and other impurities an steeped in warm water. The steeped slurry is removed and the corn is ground in a ‘degerminating’ mill.
In dry milling, cleaned corn is passed through a steaming conveyor, which toughens the hull and facilities its removal by subsequent grinding.
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