Corn is a chameleon that has found its way into over 3,000 different items. Discover how hundreds of tons of sweet corn make it from the field to a sealed can within mere hours at Lakeside Foods in Wisconsin...how corn is transformed into clear plastic packaging (ironically to hold food) at NatureWorks in Nebraska ...how corn is converted into a fuel of the future at VeraSun Energy in Iowa ... Find out exactly what High Fructose Corn Syrup is and why it gets such a bad wrap. Corn sustained ancient civilizations and today is the largest agricultural crop in the world. Next time you bite into some corn on the cob stop a minute and remember how amazing Maize really is.
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