Product Description Sweet corn is a popular and delicious variety of maize with high sugar content. Its kernels are tender and juicy and have a uniquely sweet and slightly nutty flavor. Sweet corn can be eaten on its own as a snack or used as an ingredient in various dishes, such as salads, soups, and stir-fries.

Sweet corn is a vegetable and may be eaten in many ways. Many people roast it on charcoal and eat it, boil it or use it for cooking. A few people also eat it raw. Sweet corn is becoming popular and may be used in preparations as a vegetable, for jams, special soups, creams, pastes, sweets, syrup, in pizza and salads.

Sweet corn occurs as a spontaneous mutation in field corn and was grown by several Native American tribes. The European cultivation of sweet corn occurred when the Iroquois tribes grew the first recorded sweet corn (called 'Papoon') for European settlers in 1779.

Sweet corn is available fresh, frozen, and canned, but fresh market sweet corn accounts for more than 70% of the value of the sweet corn market. Florida is the biggest producer of fresh-market sweet corn in America; its sweet corn crops constitute a $150 million industry.

Most of the crop is used domestically as the main energy ingredient in livestock feed and for fuel ethanol production. Corn is also processed into a multitude of food and industrial products including starch, sweeteners, corn oil, and beverage and industrial alcohols.

Today the most important refined corn products are corn sweeteners, starch, oil, ethanol, and feed products.

Most of the crop is used domestically as the main energy ingredient in livestock feed and for fuel ethanol production. Corn is also processed into a multitude of food and industrial products including starch, sweeteners, corn oil, and beverage and industrial alcohols.

Let's talk about sweet corn first of all when. You think about something delicious in the summer. There. Isn't much better than sweet corn. But it's not your normal field corn.

United States. The United States holds the distinction of being the top producer of corn in the world at 354.19 million tonnes and the top exporter, sending 57.79 million tonnes to overseas markets.

Mirai Corn Mirai Corn is known as the sweetest corn in the world!

Colorado is well known for producing some of the best sweet corn in the United States. Our unique growing climate and soil types combined with innovative farming practices ensure consistent quality and superior taste. State growers produce more than 133 million pounds annually.

Top Little-Did-You-Know Corn Facts

• Corn comes from Mexico.
• Corn is also called maize.
• Corn is a vegetable, fruit and grain.
• Corn comes in many different colours.
• The world record for a corn plant height is over 48 feet.
• Corn is more than food.
• Corn has an even number of rows on each cob.

The kernel is made up of four major components – starch, fiber, protein and oil – that can be processed in different ways to be used in all kinds of products. In fact, a typical grocery store contains 4,000 items that list corn ingredients on the label.

The processing of corn produces many by-products, such as corn gluten meal, corn husk, and corn steep liquor, which are rich in protein, oil, carbohydrates, and other nutrients, all of which are inexpensive.

• Dextrose (Food, Drug Uses)
• Dextrins (Industrial Uses)
• Cornstarch (Food, Drug and Cosmetic Uses)
• Corn Oil, Refined (Food, Drug Uses)
• Corn Syrup (Industrial Uses)
• High Fructose Corn Syrup (Food Uses)
• Cornstarch (Industrial Uses)
• Corn Syrup (Food, Drug Uses) Liquid or Dried Form.

11 Top-Rated Sweet Corn Selections

• Honey Select Hybrid.
• Jubilee Hybrid.
• Nirvana Hybrid.
• Peaches and Cream.
• Picasso Hybrid.
• Ruby Queen.
• Silver Queen Hybrid.
• Stowells Evergreen.