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What are the nutritional value, efficacy and function of sticky corn?
1. Sticky corn, also called waxy corn, is a kind of corn. This kind of corn has high starch content and soft and waxy meat, which is suitable for eating directly after cooking. The nutritional components of waxy corn are higher than ordinary corn, including starch 70-75%, protein 10%, fat 4-5%, multivitamins 2%, and seeds. The genetic function of waxy corn wx gene is to change the types and properties of waxy corn endosperm starch. The molecular weight of waxy corn starch is less than that of ordinary corn 10 times, and the edible digestibility is higher than that of ordinary corn by more than 20%.

2, weight loss: after eating, it can eliminate the hunger of obese people, but after eating, the calorie content is very low, which is also one of the substitutes for weight loss.

3, anti-cancer: plant cellulose can accelerate the discharge of carcinogens and other poisons, eat more corn can also inhibit the side effects of anti-cancer drugs on the human body.

4. Lowering blood pressure and blood fat: Corn has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

5, increase memory, anti-aging: stimulate brain cells, enhance people's brain power, memory and human metabolism, and regulate the function of the nervous system.

6, vision: corn can alleviate macular degeneration, vision loss, lutein and zeaxanthin with their strong antioxidant effect, can absorb harmful light into the eye.

7, people eat sticky corn can also enhance the body's anticoagulant ability, it can purify the blood, clean up the cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, and can improve the elasticity of the blood vessel wall of the human body, can maintain the normal blood circulation of the human body, and can also prevent platelets from clotting into pieces, which has a particularly obvious preventive effect on high-risk strokes in the human body.

8. Sticky corn is a healthy food with low fat and calorie. People can absorb a lot of cellulose after using it, which can increase the body's satiety and reduce the body's intake of other foods, and at the same time, it will not let the body absorb too much calories and fat. Eating this sticky corn often can obviously reduce people's weight, especially the weight loss effect.