Reasons to eat Sweet corn: Nutritionists share their advice

Sweet corn is a variety of maize grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control the conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel.

Benefits by Livia Dickson Chen

Benefits by Cagla E. Kayma

  • One of the main nutritional benefits of sweetcorn is its high fiber content. And as we know, dietary fiber is important for our health: it aids digestion, and it can decrease the risk of heart disease, strokes, type 2 diabetes, and bowel cancer.

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