1, boiled corn need to peel
Many people always like to peel off the skin when buying corn, will be peeled off the corn whiskers, in fact, it is not scientific to do so, it is best to buy corn with skin.
This is because the outer layer of the skin can protect the water inside the corn is not easy to evaporate, so as to maintain its taste. And when cooking corn, it is also best to peel off the outermost thick skin of the corn, leaving the innermost two layers of thin skin, while the corn whiskers clean, so that you can retain a unique corn aroma, and easier to cook.
2, the effects of corn and role
1. weight loss. After eating can eliminate the hunger of obese people, but after eating contains very low calories, is also one of the substitutes for weight loss.
2. Cancer prevention and anticancer. Plant fiber can accelerate the discharge of carcinogens and other toxins, eat more corn can also inhibit the side effects of anti-cancer drugs on the human body.
3. Lower blood pressure and blood fat. Rich in calcium can play a role in lowering blood pressure, promote cell division, reduce serum cholesterol, and prevent its deposition in the blood vessel wall, therefore, corn on coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and hypertension have a certain preventive and therapeutic effects. Central American Indians are not easy to suffer from hypertension and they mainly eat corn related.
4. Increase memory, anti-aging. Stimulate brain cells, enhance human brain power, memory and human metabolism, adjust the function of the nervous system. Can play a role in making the skin tender and smooth, inhibit and delay the wrinkles produced, can fight against eye aging.
5. People who often use their eyes, should eat more yellow corn, alleviate macular degeneration, vision loss, lutein and zeaxanthin by virtue of its powerful antioxidant effect, can absorb the harmful rays of light into the eye.
6. Promote gastrointestinal motility. It can prevent and control constipation, enteritis and intestinal cancer.
3, the difference between the various types of corn
Color: purple corn antioxidant, yellow corn can protect the eyes. By color, corn has purple, white, yellow, red and so on. Containing pigments are not the same, corn health effects are slightly different: purple corn and red corn more anthocyanins, so antioxidant, anti-aging effect is slightly better; yellow corn contains carotene and riboflavin, on the maintenance of eyesight health benefits; white corn health effects are relatively close to, but it is not easy to deteriorate the advantages. It should be noted that the color corn on the market is cross-bred varieties, not genetically modified food.
Taste: sweet corn is a dish, sticky corn is food. According to the taste points, there are sweet corn, sticky corn, old corn, etc.. The taste of corn is mainly determined by the starch contained therein, sticky corn in the branched chain starch content is relatively high, so the taste sticky. It should be reminded that sticky corn rises sugar faster, people with diabetes should eat less. The hard old corn straight chain starch is higher, the crude fiber content is also high, is the first choice of dieters. Overall, sticky corn and old corn starch content is high, belongs to the grain, can be used to replace the staple food. Sweet corn has a lot of water, contains vitamin C, also contains soluble sugar, but the starch content is relatively low, is considered to contain starch vegetables.
4, how to cook corn is delicious
Raw materials: sweet corn (fruit corn) 1 sticky corn (glutinous corn) 1 salt 1 teaspoon (5 g)
boiled corn practice steps: the outermost thick skin of the corn peeled off, leaving the innermost 2 thin layers of the skin, remove the corn whiskers and then wash. Put the corn in a pot, add water, not over the surface of the corn, cook over high heat, add salt, cover and cook for 8 minutes. Sweet corn and sticky corn mature at different times, so if cooking in the same pot, after 8 minutes of cooking, chuck out the sweet corn first, then continue cooking the sticky corn for another 2 minutes. (That is, cook the sweet corn for 8 minutes and the sticky corn for 10 minutes.) Chuck out the corn as soon as it's done cooking and place it in a colander to drain.
Generally corn cooks for about 8 minutes. When the corn is cooked, it is best to clip out immediately to drain the water, otherwise the flavor of the corn will not be strong. Need to remind, with corn husk and corn husk cooking soup is called "dragon beard soup", suitable for diabetes, high blood pressure patients to drink.
5, eat corn notes
1, the longer the corn, the better the anti-aging effect
From the point of view of anti-free radicals, the United States Cornell University in the "Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry," the study showed that, at 115 degrees Celsius, will be heated for 10 minutes, 25 minutes and 50 minutes of sweet corn, respectively! It was found that its anti-free radical activity was elevated by 22%, 44% and 53% in that order, meaning that the longer the corn was heated, the better the anti-aging effect. So it's also best to cook corn at home for a longer period of time.
2, moldy corn can not eat, be careful of carcinogens
Corn as a diet, almost everyone can eat. But moldy corn do not eat, because moldy corn contains carcinogens, can not eat again. So the countryside in the preservation of corn will often hang them up to ventilate, so that the corn will not be moldy.
3, eating fresh corn, one time not to eat
Southern people like to eat rice, from a health point of view, simply eat rice is not scientific, it is recommended to increase some of the miscellaneous grains, in particular, corn should be regarded as an important food to maintain health, and try to eat fresh corn. Corn should be chewed to aid digestion. Diarrhea, stomach congestion and bloating, gastrointestinal dysfunction can not eat more than once.