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What is the difference between sweet corn and waxy corn? Stroll around the market, or walk around the supermarket, you may will find a variety of maize varieties: waxy corn, sweet corn, corn on the cob and so on, the different corn varieties not particularly large difference, just on the nutritional composition is somewhat different. Today, we introduce the difference between waxy corn and sweet corn.
What's the difference between sweet corn and waxy corn?
Waxy corn (Waxy corn), also known as waxy maize. A thick waxy endosperm in the grain, more like hard corn and dent corn has a vitreous luster (transparent) grain. Its chemical properties and physical properties are controlled by a single recessive gene (Wx). The gene is located on chromosome ninth. 100% of the starch in the endosperm is Branched chain (starch). This kind of corn is used as a food for the food, but as a feed for livestock, and can be used to improve the feeding efficiency. Industrial uses. Have waxy, commonly known as sticky. Waxy corn bit soft, sticky, waxy corn with point like a rice glutinous rice, even if it is a long time, just cooked it or as soft, but diabetes is not suitable for eating waxy corn, because something is too soft, digest quickly and glycemic is relatively high. So that the ratio of waxy corn and traditional corn, it's blood sugar response will be higher.
Waxy corn
What's the difference between sweet corn and waxy corn?
Sweet corn from botanical angle can be divided into three parts of the seed coat and endosperm and embryo. The key factors influencing corn sweetness is in maize endosperm. The endosperm of sweet corn is not only starch, but also relatively high content of water-soluble polysaccharide, eat fresh sweet and delicious.
The reasons behind the reasons, is the nature of the mutations occurred in one or a few genes in sweet corn starch synthesis of a series of genes that control, in the homozygous recessive condition, cut off part of the reducing sugar to starch conversion process. And so contributed to the sweet corn of the delicious taste.
And China Podesta Jin Bang Bang food enterprises now bred a new sweet corn variety called super sweet corn, the corn harvested can direct raw food, these is a new generation of real fruit with corn, also called fruit corn.
What's the difference between sweet corn and waxy corn?
1, taste.
Sweet waxy corn is fresh and sweet, relatively more fragile.
Waxy waxy corn.
2, sweet corn, rehabilitation, starch slightly less, although there is a small amount of sugar, but its fiber, minerals accounted for the proportion. Although after eating a little sweet, but the total amount of sugar and starch. Eat sweet corn, and reduce the white rice, white bread, may have some benefits for people with diabetes.
Waxy corn is due to the high content of branched chain starch and unfit to eat, the higher the content of branched chain starch, the more easily converted to glucose, blood sugar rise is relatively high. So that the ratio of waxy corn and traditional corn, it's blood sugar response will be higher.