Interesting facts about corn
Along with some other crops, corn 🌾 occupies the most important place in the world economy. Food and drinks are prepared from it, and it is used in other areas of industry, and in some nations, corn is the main food product. It is extremely important, because corn products are contained in many products, even if consumers do not even suspect it.
The most interesting facts about corn👇
🌾The height of corn can reach 3.5-4 meters.
🌾 On one shoot of corn grows from 8 to 42 leaves, no more and no less.
🌾On average, one ear of corn contains about 1000 seeds, and the exact number is always only even.
🌾The smallest mature corn cobs weigh only 30-50 grams, and the largest – half a kilo.
🌾About 3.5 buckets of freshly harvested sweet corn kernels will be enough to sweeten 400 cans of Coca-Cola. However, after 6 hours after harvesting, the corn will lose half of this sugar.
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