It is one of the six major types of cooking sweet corn, the others being dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, and flour corn. Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults. Sweet corn occurs as a spontaneous mutation in field corn and was grown by several Native American tribes. Open pollinated cultivars of white sweet corn started to become widely available in the United States in the 19th century.
In 1933 ‘Golden Cross Bantam’ was released. There are currently hundreds of cultivars, with more constantly being developed. The fruit of the sweet corn plant is the corn kernel, a type of fruit called a caryopsis. The ear is a collection of kernels on the cob. Because corn is a monocot, there is always an even number of rows of kernels. In most of Latin America, sweet corn is traditionally eaten with beans. Although both corn and beans contain all 9 essential amino acids, eating a wide variety of foods in one day that includes grains and beans ensures the right balance of essential amino acids.
In Malaysia, there exists a variety unique to the region of Cameron highlands named “pearl corn”. The kernels are glossy white resembling pearls and can be eaten raw of the cob but often boiled in water and salt. In the Philippines, boiled sweet corn kernels are served hot with margarine and cheese powder as an inexpensive snack sold by street vendors. The kernels are boiled or steamed. In Europe and Asia they are often used as a pizza topping or in salads. In the United States, sweet corn is eaten as a steamed vegetable, or on the cob, usually served with butter and salt. It can be found in Tex-Mex cooking in chili, tacos, and salads.
When corn is mixed with lima beans it is called succotash. Sweet corn is one of the most popular vegetables in the United States. If left to dry on the plant, kernels may be taken off the cob and cooked in oil where, unlike popcorn, they expand to about double the original kernel size and are often called corn nuts. In Nigeria, corn can be added to cooked bean in form of Adalu. Cooking sweet corn increases levels of ferulic acid, which has anti-cancer properties. In the following text, lowercase gene names indicate the recessive, loss-of-function mutants. Shoepeg” is a popular cultivar from the 1900s.
After further investigation, Laughnan discovered that the endosperm of sh2 sweet corn kernels store less starch and from 4 to 10 times more sugar than normal su sweet corn. Illini Xtra Sweet’, but widespread use of supersweet hybrids did not occur until the early 1980s. The popularity of supersweet corn rose due to its long shelf life and large sugar content when compared to conventional sweet corn. Everlasting Heritage” cultivars, such as ‘Kandy Korn’. The gene for Se1 has been located.