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Raw or cooked? (updates).(Brief Article)
If you want the greatest nutritional value from your corn, how should you eat it: raw, quickly steamed or thoroughly cooked? In fact, the answer might surprise you.
In truth, cooking corn for a long time at a high temperature actually boosts the vegetable's antioxidant benefits--and the longer you cook it, the better. So concludes a study appearing in the August 14, 2002 issue of the California-based Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
The study's lead author, Rui Hai Liu, PhD, of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his team cooked sweet corn in batches at 239F for 10, 25 and 50 minutes. Cooking increased the antioxidants present in com by 22, 44 and 53 percent, respectively.
The study also determined that cooked corn contains ferulic acid, a substance thought to have anti-cancer properties--and that its presence, too, ...
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- Newspaper article from: On The Plate August 10, 2002 700+ words
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- Corny story.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire August 23, 2003 700+ words
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- Thailand's sweet corn: Impact of EU anti-dumping penalties.
- News wire article from: Thai Press Reports March 26, 2007 700+ words
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- Sweet-corn farmers turn sour on EU.
- Newspaper article from: The Nation (Thailand) March 9, 2007 700+ words
...impose an anti-dumping duty on Thai sweet corn will put 200,000 farmers and more than...impose a 13.2-per-cent duty on Thai sweet corn to be reversed. The association will...would force more than half of all Thai sweet-corn companies to shut down since the duty...
- Thailand's sweet corn exports no.3 in world market.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire August 23, 2005 700+ words
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- The secrets to growing delectable sweet corn.(The garden)
- Magazine article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal King, Tim March 1, 2007 700+ words
...what makes a delectable tasting ear of sweet corn as there are silks on that ear. Corn...methods for gardeners who wish to seek sweet corn superiority. To discover those you might...what's most important when planting sweet corn and he'll remind you it's warm soil...
