Sweet corn

id: sweet-corn-188-6038571
title: Sweet corn
text: Sweet corn, also called sweetcorn, sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of corn grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel. Sweet corn is picked when still immature and prepared and eaten as a vegetable, rather than field corn, which is harvested when the kernels are dry and mature. Since the process of maturation invo
brand slug: wiki
category slug: encyclopedia
description: Variety of corn
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_corn
date created: 2002-09-22T09:33:32Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T19:13:01Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q18966","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18966"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/VegCorn.jpg","width":635,"height":418}
fields total: 13
integrity: 16

Related Entries

Explore Next Part