Sweet corn is usually cooked for 5-15 minutes.

Sweet corn, also known as fruit corn, is cooked in a regular pot, usually for 10-15 minutes after the water comes to a boil. If cooked in a pressure cooker, it can be cooked for 5 to 8 minutes after the pressure cooker has been vaporized. You can add a little more time according to the tenderness of the sweet corn, but no more than 20 minutes, otherwise the taste of sweet corn will decline.

Sweet corn is native to the United States and is one of the main vegetables in developed countries such as Europe, America, Korea and Japan. Sweet corn can be eaten raw, can also be cooked as a vegetable; can also use its sweet, sticky, glutinous characteristics, processed into a variety of pastries and corn sauce; can also be processed into soft canned, frozen storage; corn green cob harvested, its fresh stems and leaves can be fed to dairy cows.

Sweet corn's growing environment:

Sweet corn is a temperature-loving crop, the soil temperature of 12 ~ 15 ℃ when the seed germination, germination of the temperature range of 12 ~ 38 ℃, the emergence of seedlings encountered a short period of low temperatures -3 ~ -2 ℃ on the occurrence of freezing, but still be able to resume growth, -4 ℃ will be frozen to death. Seedling period the average daytime temperature can not be lower than 17 ℃, the night can not be lower than 12 ℃, the average day and night temperature of 10 ~ 12 ℃ of low temperature, it leads to prolong the reproductive period.

Root growth average temperature of 17 ~ 24 ℃, below 10 ℃ root system to stop growing, plant growth temperature of 21 ~ 24 ℃, flowering and seed development requirements for the temperature of 25 ~ 27 ℃, the Department of short-day crop.

During the growth period needs more water, annual rainfall requirements in 500 ~ 1000 mm, especially in the month before and after the spike, there should be 150 mm of rain, otherwise it affects the fullness of the grain and yield. Wide range of adaptation to the soil, but in order to choose the soil deep, loose, well-drained, organic matter-rich sandy loam growth, pH 5-8 is appropriate.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Sweet Corn