Sweet Corn
Sweet Corn is a variety of maize with high sugar content. Their calories mainly come from simple carbohydrates like glucose, sucrose, complex sugars like amylose and amylopectin as in cereals. Sweet corn contains vitamins, minerals and fibre, and one-half cup of corn has 72 calories. Sweet corn is gluten-free cereal and may be used safely much like rice, quinoa, etc. in celiac disease. Corn is a good source of phenolic flavonoid antioxidant, ferulic acid. Several research studies suggest that ferulic acid plays a vital role in preventing cancers, aging, and inflammation in humans. It also contains good levels of some of the valuable B-complex group of vitamins such as thiamin, niacin, pantothenic acid, folates, riboflavin, and pyridoxine. Many of these vitamins function as co-factors to enzymes during substrate metabolism. Further, it contains healthy amounts of some important minerals like zinc, magnesium, copper, iron, and manganese.
