To microwave for 4 minutes, start by cutting the corn at the root, never peeling off the coat! Rinse it slightly in cool water, then put it straight into the microwave for four minutes on high and wait a minute before taking the corn out. This makes the corn full of kernels, properly dry and wet, not leaving a lot of water behind like boiling would, and it tastes great.

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Nutritional value of corn:

The nutritional composition of corn is relatively comprehensive, generally containing protein 8.5%, fat 4.3%, sugar 73.2%, calcium 0.022%, phosphorus .21%, iron 0.0016%, but also contains carotenoids, vitamins B1, B2 and nicotinic acid, as well as gluten steroids, lecithin? Vitamin E, lysine and so on. The latest research points out that corn contains an anti-cancer factor - glutathione.

Domestic and foreign nutritionists give corn a very high evaluation, that: corn contains glutathione has anti-cancer effects, it can be combined with a variety of carcinogenic substances in the body, can make these substances lose carcinogenicity; corn contains cellulose is a kind of carbohydrates not absorbed by the human body, can reduce the concentration of carcinogens in the intestinal tract and reduce the secretion of toxin putrefaction in the accumulation of intestinal tract, thereby reducing colon and rectal cancer. Reduce the incidence of colon and rectal cancer.

The lignin contained in corn can make the vitality of "macrophage" in human body increase 2~3 times, so as to inhibit the occurrence of cancerous tumors; corn also contains a large number of minerals, magnesium in the food has an obvious effect on cancer prevention. Japanese geneticists believe that Yu Lai bran can make dinitro-mao carcinogens and fried fish, meat when the formation of heterocyclic amine carcinogenic effect of 92% reduction.

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