Corn IS a vegetable

HacheraTsarine
HacheraTsarine Posts: 278 Member
in Food and Nutrition
and I don't need no fancy scholar paper to back up that fact. My opinion is fact.




Which makes pop corn healthy as ****.

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  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
    I like corn in tortillas and bread. I eat a lot more vegetables than I thought. winning!
  • Janice2Shakira
    Janice2Shakira Posts: 257
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    Idk, they look pretty unhealthy to me
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    technically corn is a grain. But I still love popcorn anyway, and make no apologies for eating it at times!
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    it's candy :angry:
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  • TitaniaEcks
    TitaniaEcks Posts: 351 Member
    Corn is a vegetable, and cucumber is a fruit. But culinarily/nutritionally speaking, we don't group them in with those things because corn acts like a starch/grain and cucumber acts like a veggie.

    Corn is, like, pure carbs/sugar with little nutritional value; you can't compare it to spinach or beets or such.
  • jayliospecky
    jayliospecky Posts: 25,022 Member
    Of course corn has nutritional value.
    Nutrients: One medium ear contains about 2.8 grams of fiber and nearly 3.5 grams of protein. Corn is also a good source of vitamin C (more than 10 percent of recommended daily values). Additionally, it has thiamin (14.8 percent of recommended daily values), which helps to produce energy for the heart, muscles and nervous system; riboflavin; niacin (8.3 percent of recommended daily values), which helps with normal functioning of the nerves, skin and digestive system; pantothenic acid (9 percent of recommended daily values), which helps the body convert food to energy; magnesium (8 percent of DV); and phosphorus (11 percent of DV).

    Finally, corn is rich in folic acid, and, "Folate-rich diets have been associated with decreased risk of cardiovascular disease by working in conjunction with vitamin B6 to reduce homocysteine, an amino acid that at high levels is a risk factor for artery blockage," says Jo Ann S. Carson, a professor of nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Additionally, folic acid works along with vitamin B12 and vitamin C to help the body use protein, and it is involved in the production of red blood cells and DNA. Folic acid is also involved in normal tissue growth, which is why getting enough folic acid before and during pregnancy helps prevent certain birth defects, says Ruth Lowenberg, M.S., R.D., a spokesperson for the Fresh Supersweet Corn Council.

    Health Perks: With a moderate glycemic index of 56 (compared with 100 for white bread), corn provides us with carbohydrates for energy without excessively raising the sugar in our blood, says Carson. Also, the lutein and zeaxanthin it contains are phytochemicals thought to be helpful in reducing the development of macular degeneration in the eye.

    Saying you can't compare corn to spinach and beets is like saying you can't compare apples to oranges. You can compare them, but why? Just eat them both. Or eat all of them, whatever.
  • QuilterInVA
    QuilterInVA Posts: 672 Member
    Only an uninformed person would say corn is a vegetable. It's a grain.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    Corn rules!!
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    So, I work for an agricultural company. I spoke to one of our Phd's in Plant Biology and asked her to solve this age old MFP arguement. This is what she told me. Corn is grown and marketed as a Cereal Grain. It is what is classified as a monocot (seed leaves are similar to grasses) and is more closely related to barley, rye, wheat etc than what expects of a fruit and vegetable. Therefore botanists classify it as a grain.

    That being said... it's tasty and I don't care.

    I will slather it with butter and eat it right off the cob and you can't stop me. :tongue:
  • aquarabbit
    aquarabbit Posts: 1,622 Member
    So, I work for an agricultural company. I spoke to one of our Phd's in Plant Biology and asked her to solve this age old MFP arguement. This is what she told me. Corn is grown and marketed as a Cereal Grain. It is what is classified as a monocot (seed leaves are similar to grasses) and is more closely related to barley, rye, wheat etc than what expects of a fruit and vegetable. Therefore botanists classify it as a grain.

    That being said... it's tasty and I don't care.

    I will slather it with butter and eat it right off the cob and you can't stop me. :tongue:

    Reading things like this makes me really regret not taking that botany class in college. I would love to have this kind of information. Learning about the structure of things is so cool to me. Did you ask her about tomatoes? And I agree with butter, but also some Cajun spice!

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