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The corn smut fungus, known as huitlacoche, which grows on maize, is a Mexican delicacy. [103] Coarse maize meal is made into a thick porridge in many cultures: from the polenta of Italy, the angu of Brazil, the mămăligă of Romania, to cornmeal mush in the US (or hominy grits in the Southern US) or the food called mieliepap in South Africa ...
Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried corn (maize). It is a common staple food and is ground to coarse, medium, and fine consistencies, but it is not as fine as wheat flour can be. [1] [2] [3] In Mexico and Louisiana, very finely ground cornmeal is referred to as corn flour.
Maize (Zea mays) is further divided into four subspecies: Z. m. huehuetenangensis, Z. m. mexicana, Z. m. parviglumis (Balsas teosinte, the ancestor of maize), and Z. m. mays. [4] The first three subspecies are teosintes; the last is maize, or corn, [4] the only domesticated taxon in the genus Zea. [citation needed]
[1] [2] It is a common staple food, and is ground to coarse, medium, and fine consistencies. Coarsely ground corn flour (meal) is known as cornmeal . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] When maize flour is made from maize that has been soaked in an alkaline solution, e.g., limewater (a process known as nixtamalization ), it is called masa harina (or masa flour), which ...
Maize, or Zea mays subsp mays, a cultivated subspecies also known as "corn" or "sweet corn" in many English-speaking countries. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
Mielie meal, also known as mealie meal or maize meal, is a relatively coarse flour (much coarser than cornflour or cornstarch) made from maize [1] or mealies in Southern Africa. It was originally brought to Africa from the Americas by the Portuguese. [ 2 ]
Field corn is a North American term for maize (Zea mays) grown for livestock fodder (silage and meal), ethanol, cereal, and processed food products.The principal field corn varieties are dent corn, flint corn, flour corn (also known as soft corn) which includes blue corn (Zea mays amylacea), [1] and waxy corn.
The quantities of corn (maize, Zea mays) in the following table are in million metric tonnes (m STs, m LTs). All countries with a typical production quantity of at least 10 million t (11 million short tons; 9.8 million long tons) are listed below.