To do popcorn corn is called "popping corn", the kernel is very small, 2-3 rice grain size, yellow, translucent, horny. You can buy it in the supermarket. Ordinary corn can not make popcorn.

Corn at high temperatures, all can occur popping into flowers, however, different types of varieties of popping degree varies greatly.

Specialized for popcorn "popping corn", is the maximum expansion of the ability to pop the hard type of corn selected. After heat, the kernels burst, forming large flakes. Such as "Golden Flower" this variety, expanding and bursting times up to 25 times more than the bursting rate of more than 98%.

Hard and some horse-tooth type corn varieties, is what you say, "ordinary corn" when heated, although the kernels can also burst, resulting in flocculent, but can not be compared with the burst corn.