Something you should know about corn!

I have found some interesting fact about corn in Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma.

1.Corn feeds the steer that becomes the steak.

2.Corn feeds the chicken, the pig, the turkey, the lamb, the catfish even salmon. All these animal had been made to tolerate corn which is not their natural diet.

3.Chicken nugget is all corn!! The chicken feed on corn. Other ingredient are all derived from corn: modified corn starch that glues things together, the corn flour, the corn oil, the leavenings and lecithin, the mono-, di-, and triglycerides, the attractive golden coloring and even the citric acid all come from corn.

4.All the sodas and most of the fruit drinks have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Beer also made by alcohol fermented from glucose refined from corn.

5.Most plans during photosynthesis create compounds that have 3 carbon atoms, corn make compounds that have 4!An advantage compare to other plants.

6.Corn take in more carbon 13 than the more common carbon 12. That's means, the higher the ratio of carbon 13 to carbon 12 in a person's flesh, the more corn has been in his diet!

7.Had corn find it way into agriculture, it would had risked extinction, because without humans to plant it every spring, corn wold have disappeared from the earth. Why? Because, corn depends on human thumb needed to remove the husk, separate the seeds, and plant it. If you plant a whole corncob, they will invariably crowd themselves to death.