Ten Amazing Corn Facts
1. Henry Ford’s Model T was designed to run on either gasoline or corn ethanol.
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2. In 2019, US farmers planted 91.7 million acres of corn—the equivalent of 69 million football fields.
3. There are 18 nations in the world whose inhabitants consume corn as their primary food source—twelve in Latin America and six in Africa.
4. Mayan legend credits the god Quetzalcóatl with giving humans the knowledge of corn cultivation.
5. There are six main types of corn: flour corn, waxy maize, sweet corn, popcorn, dent, and flint.
6. Corn utilizes the most acreage of all major crops grown in the United States.
7. The average US consumption of high fructose corn syrup has steadily decreased from 62.5 pounds per person in 2000 to 37.6 pounds in 2018.
8. Ships carrying captive Africans to the Americas were usually stocked with over thirteen tons of corn, the primary food source for enslaved persons during the voyage.
9. Corn is native to the American continents and was unknown to Europeans until Columbus arrived in the New World.
10. When corn was first introduced to the Chinese, they referred to it as “the wheat of the western barbarians.”
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