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Corn’s beauty, taste, versatility and nutrition make it one of the World’s most widely and creatively used plants. Some corn types (see Table 1. Major Corn Types) are used for their sweetness and others, for their starch. Corn kernels are energy storehouses, rich in carbohydrates, oils, vitamins, minerals and some proteins, and are unimaginably useful to people.

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