Corn

• Corn was grown for thousands of years before explorer Christopher Columbus saw fields of it growing in the Caribbean in 1492.
• Corn was a major component of the diet of the Aztec, Mayan, Inca and South American Indians.
• Corn is one of the world's major cereal crops and used as flour to make bread, breakfast cereal, popcorn and sweet corn is served as a vegetable.
• In many parts of the world the term 'corn' refers to the cereal 'maize', which is ground from the dried kernels.
• Corn is also used for cornmeal in polenta, for corn syrup, corn flour and corn oil.
• An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
• Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica.