Golden Corn Kernels

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Gone are the days when people worshiped plants that served as their main food, and therefore were considered sacred. Such plants include Corn, which was idolized by the American Indians, calling it "Maize". For more than seven thousand years, this cereal has been feeding people with its golden grains

Cereals Called Maize

The discovery of new lands by the brave Columbus enriched the diet of Europeans. Indeed, in addition to gold and jewelry, which were hunted by many companions of Columbus who left their native lands in search of luck, they met strange plants that rose to the heavens to a height of more than a meter.

The sight of the cornfield was as mesmerizing as the piles of gold. People dreamed that corn cobs were molded of pure gold, and that long drooping leaves were cast in silver. And they were not mistaken, because Corn, unlike gold, turned out to be much more useful for Mankind, having managed to feed the world with a tasty and healthy grain.

Maize was not just a staple food for the Indians. It was a gift from the gods that was worshiped by giving the temples the shape of an ear of corn.

Linear-lanceolate large leaves served as material for the manufacture of shoes, clothes, they were filled with mattresses. Dessert syrups and intoxicating drinks were cooked from the stems, because people loved to have fun in any century.

Valuable components of corn grain

There is nothing unearthly in golden corn kernels. Two-thirds of them consist of starch, which in ancient times made it possible to use cereal for baking the first bread or bread cakes.

Proteins, constituting 10-12 percent, fats (8 percent) and a number of vitamins give the grains caloric value and nutritional value, and also allow the production of corn oil, in which vitamin E, which is responsible for the normal functioning of the human endocrine system, is 2 times more than in expensive olive oil. At least that's what nutritionists write.

Corn oil, and sun grains, are especially useful for people whom the Creator has provided with a weak cardiovascular system, prone to disease.

Not surprisingly, with such abilities, the golden cobs of the overseas alien conquered the stomachs of Europeans much faster than the grimy potato tubers.

Heat-loving plant

Corn, accustomed to growing under the warm sun of South America, in central Russia does not have time to fill its cobs with golden grains. Unless, especially those in love with corn, people are not too lazy to tinker with growing seedlings in order to rejoice in the fall on strong golden cobs filled with vigorous grains.

That is why Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, who wanted to feed Russians to their fill and issued a decree on the widespread sowing of corn, could not fulfill his dream. The corn resisted, did not want to ripen, and therefore people wasted their energy, time, finances, not getting the desired result.

Although, to obtain nutritious green mass for livestock feed, corn was quite suitable in Russian fields. The harvests collected for fodder ranged from 50 to 100 tons of greenery per hectare of land.

By the way, seeds for planting corn at a time when it was just making its first steps on Russian lands were given to peasants free of charge, if only they would start growing this new panacea for hunger.

Corn kernels are not always golden in color. There are varieties of corn, the grains of which are colored blue, red, black.

Secrets of the ancient Indians

If the Europeans had not treated the indigenous population of America so barbarously, the vast knowledge of Indian civilizations would not have been lost.

In particular, with regard to corn varieties, the Maya people had varieties of corn that produced fruits at different times after sowing. One variety required six months of warm weather, the other took 3 months, and the variety with the symbolic name "Rooster's Song" took only two months from the date of germination to endow the farmer with nutritious ears.