Maize: Foods from Maize

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Maize is the leading cereal crop in terms of worldwide production and is used for the production of an array of foods, animal feed, biofuels, and other industrial uses. In terms of human foods, maize is usually channeled into three major milling industries: dry, wet, and nixtamalization, which generate raw materials that are further transformed into breakfast cereals, snacks (popcorn, extruded, and lime-cooked), yeast and chemically leavened bakery items, corn syrups, beer and distilled spirits, and an array of nixtamalized products such as tortillas and chips that are gaining relevance throughout the globe. The nutritional qualities of these industrialized and traditional foods greatly contribute to the food cultures of many civilizations throughout the world.

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