AGRC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sweet Corn, Dent Corn, Flour Corn
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The leading producers are the usa and china and brazil. Large (12% of kernel, contains 35% oil) Protein is of lower nutritional quality ( low in lysine, threonine, and tryptophan) Gluten free: used to prepare masa ( dough prepared from alkali-treated corn) After seeping or soaking the bran can be removed. Corn is separate in germs, gluten, starch and bres. Wet milling into germ, starch and by products ( bre, protein, solubles) Germ: extracted to produce oil and meal. By - products: feed ( corn gluten meal ) Fuel alcohol: whole grain and re ned starch. By products are dried distilled grains and dried distillers grains with solubles: added to feed for protein- fed to the ruminants. Roller milled into bran, germ, grits, meal, and our. Bran and germ are removed in advance or roller milling. Grits / meal / our: snack foods, tortillas. Ground whole grain as feed ( grain and on cob)
