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Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated. The term also refers to the snack food produced by the expansion. It is one of the oldest snacks, with evidence of popcorn dating back thousands of years in the Americas.
A popcorn "cannon" seen in Taiyuan, China. In the 1930s, Anderson’s invention was adapted as the Chinese Popcorn cannon. [6] Anderson's invention was designed for industrial food manufacturing, and unsuitable for street vendors. [7] The device is a teardrop-shaped pressure cooking pot. [8] The history of grain-puffing in Asia remaines ...
A hot-air home popcorn maker. A popcorn maker (also called a popcorn popper) is a machine used to pop corn. Since ancient times, popcorn has been a popular snack food, produced through the explosive expansion of kernels of heated corn . [1] Commercial large-scale popcorn machines were invented by Charles Cretors in the late 19th century. Many ...
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Pressure of popping popcorn (very approximate) [41] [42] 2.6 kPa 0.38 psi Pressure at which water boils at room temperature (22 °C) (20 mmHg) [43] 5 kPa 0.8 psi Blood pressure fluctuation (40 mmHg) between heartbeats for a typical healthy adult [44] [45] 6.3 kPa 0.9 psi
The next time you pop in a movie, rethink your snack habit: Even if you split the bag of microwave popcorn, you'll down 20 percent of your daily allotment of sodium—plus oftentimes trans fat and ...
A logarithmic chart allows only positive values to be plotted. A square root scale chart cannot show negative values. x: the x-values as a comma-separated list, for dates and time see remark in xType and yType; y or y1, y2, …: the y-values for one or several data series, respectively. For pie charts y2 denotes the radius of the corresponding ...
Jiffy Pop Popcorn. Top to bottom: uncooked with paper outer covering in place, uncooked with foil inner covering exposed, cooked with foil intact, cooked with foil opened. Jiffy Pop is a popcorn brand of ConAgra Foods. The product consists of popcorn kernels, oil, and flavoring agents contained within a foil-covered, disposable aluminum pan.