What kind of plant is corn?

Corn, also known as corn, is an important food crop in our country. It is often cooked when eaten for breakfast. At present, most areas are planted. What family is corn?

1. What family plant is corn?

Corn is an annual herb of the family Gramineae. Native to South America and Central America, it is cultivated in most parts of our country and is an important food crop. At present, it can be divided into grain supplies, vegetable supplies, processed varieties and explosive varieties according to their uses.

2. What are the common varieties of corn?

1. Sweet corn

Sweet corn is a very popular variety in the current market, also known as vegetable corn, said corn. It can be cooked, eaten raw, or processed into non-staple foods such as cans. Sweet corn has a relatively high sugar content, and sweet corn is also divided into several types, mainly according to its sugar content. This kind of corn is not very large in China at present, but it is very popular.

2. Glutinous corn

Glutinous corn is also called sticky corn, its nature is actually the same as glutinous rice, amylose content is higher, edible digestibility is high, viscosity is strong. Glutinous rice is not only higher in edible value than ordinary corn, but also has a much higher palatability and utilization rate when processed into feed. However, its disadvantage is that the yield of planting is not as high as that of ordinary corn, so planting technology needs to be improved.

3. High lysine corn

High lysine corn is a kind of corn with high protein content. Its protein content is higher than other corn. In fact, it is high lysine content. It has important significance in food and feed processing. Especially when used as feed, the cost of using high-lysine corn is at least 30% less than that of ordinary corn, and the planting prospect is very good.

4. Colored corn

Colored corn is actually a very common hybrid corn, and now corn color is not a single. It has yellow corn, black corn, purple corn, white corn, and corn with various colors growing alternately. This color is inherited by hybridization, which has nothing to do with late spraying, especially black corn, which can be said to be a very healthy food.

5. High oil corn

Gaoyou corn is a kind of corn used for oil extraction, and its oil content is relatively high. We all know that there is corn oil on the market, but it is actually difficult for ordinary corn to extract oil, and it takes a lot of corn to extract a catty of oil. The appearance of high-oil corn just meets this condition of oil extraction, but at present this kind of corn in China is basically still very few.

6. Popcorn

Popcorn is simply corn used to make popcorn. This kind of corn will burst after high temperature. We can add seasonings according to our own tastes, which is the raw material of very popular fashion cuisine on the market at present. This kind of corn is growing on a larger and larger scale in China, mainly due to its market demand.