Corn is a product which with pleasure is eaten both adults, and children. It is cooked, baked, cook bread, flat cakes, porridges and many other things. The crop is reaped at the end of summer, but it is frozen and preserved that makes it available to the use all the year round.
It is one of the most ancient cereal cultures which history begins in the 4250th year BC. Now it enjoys wide popularity on all globe and finds application not only in the food sphere, but also in many others, for example, in medicine and construction.
Corn is worth it to know about it more, and this article will help you to fill up a moneybox of the knowledge of such useful product.
Caloric content, vitamins and minerals
Corn caloric content not such and small is also 122 kcal on 100 g of grains. However, it is very nutritious and contains the mass of useful substances for what it is loved by all adherents of a healthy lifestyle.
So, what vitamins, minerals and amino acids are in corn:
- Minerals: calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and still the whole 22 elements from Mendeleyev's table.
- Vitamins: In, E, C, A, K1, SS.
- Amino acids: a lysine, tryptophane (are not made by a human body).
As we see, this cereal culture possesses just huge reserve of substances and silly not to include it in the menu because of rather big caloric content. Besides, saturation comes quickly and hardly you will eat more than one-two ears for time.
Whether you know? We got used that corncobs have yellow or light yellow color, however there are about 1000 grades which color is white, red, violet, black and even multi-colored!
By the way, information for growing thin: caloric content of corn grits is 337 kcal (not in finished form), and here corn tinned has approximately the same caloric content, as well as boiled, and makes 119 kcal on 100 grams.
Than corn is useful to an organism
Useful components it, of course, is good, but it is for certain interesting to you what the use of corn influences and what its positive effect for different people consists in. But for a start we will list its general useful properties for people of all genders and ages:
- prevents a stress and improves mood;
- improves work of a cardiovascular system;
- slows down aging processes;
- prevents development of a sclerosis;
- improves memory and abilities of a brain;
- removes toxins and slags;
- minimizes risk of development of cancer tumors;
- regulates a hormonal background;
- improves organism resilience to viruses;
- brings stones out of kidneys;
- improves a condition of the patient at gastritis and hepatitis;
- accelerates a metabolism that is an important factor at diabetes and excess weight;
- the organism pushes to development of red blood cells that does it by ideal medicine at an anemia.
And now we will pass to specifics and it is enumerable useful effects for men, women, children and elderly people.
For men
Corn is useful to men first of all at impotence because she is capable to normalize the hormonal processes happening in an organism. Of course, only eating corn, this problem not to solve, but it precisely will help to accelerate recovery.
Corn will be useful also at problems with digestive tract and heart. And if you have a bad mood, then the bright yellow ear as if by magic will paint life in bright paints.
For women
Now we will find out, than corn boiled is useful to women. It is no secret that many women tremblingly keep the figure. It will be interesting to you to learn that if you include corn in the diet, the beautiful figure will not keep itself waiting long.
For this thanks to special mineral — to zinc which accelerates a metabolism and helps to burn to an organism excess stocks. Corn is often included in various diets for its property quickly and for a long time to sate. Except the help in weight loss, corn still is the irreplaceable assistant in preservation of elastic skin and youth for many years ahead. It manages it thanks to vitamin E which is known to all ladies for the rejuvenating properties.
Pregnant women should not neglect this cereal too, the lack of vitamins and minerals can lead to an abortion, the wrong development of the child, diseases of heart, nervous system and many other unpleasant moments.
So eating boiled grains every day, you will save yourself from avitaminosis and other problems. By the way, at a lactation this cereal will be also useful and will saturate your milk with a large amount of useful substances, but, of course, here it is necessary to be careful and not to eat at once much.
Begin with a small amount and if the kid feels well, you can increase a portion.
For children
The advantage of corn and for children is indisputable. The well of vitamins and minerals helps with its structure to full development of the child, improves growth of fabrics and a brain, helps memory development, strengthens immunity and accustoms to follow since small years to a healthy lifestyle. Vegetables, fruit and cereals have to be present at large numbers in the kids menu and then your child will surely have excellent health and a slim figure.
For elderly people
Doctors advise more often to eat corn to elderly people, because of its properties to improve memory and to prevent development of a sclerosis to what as all of us know, people in the evening of life are subject. Besides, corn rejuvenates all cages of an organism and slows down aging process. Also it improves sight at the expense of content of vitamin A in it.
Important! For a maximum of advantage of this remarkable cereal it is necessary to remember that it is more preferable to use it in a boiled look, and kernels on an ear have to be gentle, but not rough. Such ears with solid grains are not really well acquired by an organism and advantage of them almost any.
Application in different spheres
Let's look what application is found by our bright yellow cereal in different spheres of life.
In cookery
Tinned corn because its format allows without excess efforts to use it for cooking of different salads and dishes is most of all widespread in the culinary sphere. Also, thanks to great flavoring and culinary qualities, corn is used when cooking sauces, baked puddings, pies, soups and desserts.
Besides preservation, corn is also processed into grain or flour that assumes preparation of porridges and various pastries on its basis. Small ears of corn specially grow up in order that to pickle them in banks as cucumbers and then to eat just like that or as a part of some dish.
By the way, such food, irreplaceable behind viewing the movie, as popcorn, is also preparing from corn kernels. Our yellow useful cereal is appreciated in many kitchens of the world.
Italians cook the most tasty polenta, Romanians — a hominy, Georgians — mchad, and Americans managed to make the well-known American bourbon on the basis of corn alcohol. In the same America, corn syrup is actively applied as sugar substitute at preparation of confectionery. Except flour, grain and alcoholic beverages, from corn still produce oil. Corn oil in many respects overtakes habitual for us sunflower, conceding in usefulness only olive and soy.
In medicine
Corn is widely applied in traditional medicine thanks to the effective treating properties at liver diseases, jaundice, stagnant hypostases, female diseases and diseases of urinary tract. As remedy use not grains, but corn snouts.
Whether you know? Corn is in the second place in the world by the number of crops, conceding only to wheat. It is grown up on all continents of the world, except Antarctica.
By the way, they are applied also in traditional medicine in the form of infusion and extract which start process of a conclusion of bile and also improve process of blood clotting.
The last several years doctors pay more attention to corn oil and advise it to use for prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis due to its property to reduce an indicator of bad cholesterol in blood.
In cosmetology
Corn found the application and in creation of cosmetics as it is vitamin-rich groups E and K which are well influencing skin, hair and nails. Oil from corn germs is applied to moistening of dry skin, it removes peeling, updates and rejuvenates cages, returns to skin elasticity and removes wrinkles.
And here corn starch found the application in cosmetics for the fat and combined skin. It serves as absorbent, collecting parts of skin fat and, besides, provides to skin food and protection.
Also it can be found in composition of talc and children's powders due to the hypoallergenic properties and ability to absorb well. Biologically active components which receive from corn grains often are present at the structure of the well-known and expensive firms on skin care. Whether and it is an indicator of their efficiency.
How to cook to keep vitamins
All of us know that during cooking a good few of vitamins is lost. It can be avoided if the nobility as it is correct to prepare. Most of hostesses before cooking completely save ears from leaves and short moustaches. But you do not hurry to do it, they not only will improve taste of a ready dish, but also will help to keep all vitamins and minerals. So, what image to make it.
To cook it is direct in leaves not absolutely conveniently because after cooking they are badly cleaned and so far you will be engaged in it corn will cool down and will be not such tasty any more. Clean corn from her clothes as you usually did it and prepare a big pan or a cauldron with thick walls.
Important! Do not break corncobs in half, thus you promote loss of vitamins when cooking. Capacity has to be such that there all ears went in.
When capacity is ready, it is possible to begin preparation for cooking of corn. On a bottom and walls lay out a part of leaves and short moustaches. Then place inside ears and close them from above the rest of leaves. Now it is possible to fill in in capacity water so that it completely closed ears.
Put a pan on a plate, without having forgotten to close at the same time it a cover. It is important for preservation of vitamins. Young sugar ears cook usually from 20 to 40 minutes to full readiness. It is not necessary to salt during cooking, salt promotes release of liquid from ears that will make corn of less juicy, and all useful that contains in corn, will remain in water. There now and everything, useful and juicy corn is ready. Give it at once more hotly, having added salt and butter to taste.
Contraindications and harm
Kind of it was sad, but the queen of fields is suitable not for all and some people need to use her is dosed or in general to exclude.
Corn is contraindicated to people with:
- bad blood clotting;
- stomach ulcer;
- individual intolerance of this product.
What is regarding harm, when eating corn grains in large numbers there can be an abdominal distension, a meteorizm or violation of a chair. People with an excess weight are not recommended to be fond of corn as it contains many calories.
Doctors advise the feeding women to eat no more than 1-2 ears a week, otherwise it can become the reason of development of gripes and a meteorizm at the child. On it our article came to an end. Now all of you know about one of the main cereals of our planet — corn, about its useful properties as it is correct to cook it and, of course, about contraindications. Eat with pleasure and always remember that everything is good moderately!