Corn contains 106 kilojoules per 100 grams of corn, which is a little more than rice. Although corn has a little more calories, it contains a lot of dietary fiber, much more than rice, which can produce enough satiety. Therefore, people who want to eat 100 grams of rice will be full if they eat 50 grams of corn, so eating corn will not only help us lose weight.

Corn contains more crude fiber, which is 4 ~ 10 times higher than polished rice and refined flour. Corn also contains a lot of magnesium, which can strengthen the peristalsis of intestinal wall and promote the elimination of waste in the body.

Corn (Latin scientific name: Zea mays? L.) belongs to Panicum in Gramineae. Alias: Corn, Bonzi, Baogu, Mi Bao, Baosu, Hosta, Corn, pearl rice, and Su, which are called pearl grains in northeast Liaoning dialect, coix seed in Chaozhou dialect, millet in Cantonese and Fanmai in Minnan dialect.

The nutritional components of corn are comprehensive, generally containing protein 8.5%, fat 4.3%, sugar 73.2%, calcium 0.022%, phosphorus 0.2 1%, iron 0.00 16%, and carotene, vitamin B 1, B2, nicotinic acid, sitosterol and so on. , vitamin e, lysine, etc.

Glutathione contained in corn has anti-cancer effect, which can combine with many carcinogens in human body and make these substances lose carcinogenicity; Cellulose contained in corn is a kind of carbohydrate that human body can't absorb, which can reduce the concentration of carcinogens in human intestine and the accumulation of humic substances of intestinal endocrine toxins, thus reducing the incidence of colon cancer and rectal cancer.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Corn