Canned corn is good for your gut health, as canned corn contains fiber, which feeds your good gut bacteria and helps with digestion.
The canned corn also provides you with soluble fiber and insoluble fiber and can add bulk to your stool, as well as act as a prebiotic to support healthy microbiome and promote regular bowel movements.
The fiber in the corn, especially the type of fiber called resistant starch, acts as a prebiotic, which also means that it provides food for the beneficial gut bacteria, which is also crucial for your overall digestive health.
While not required you should also rinse canned corn before eating as rinsing the canned corn can remove excess sodium, preservatives and added sugars, which can improve the flavor as well as the health profile of the canned corn.
While rinsing canned corn before eating is not required, it's best to do so as it also helps reduce the sodium content of the canned corn by around 23 percent and gets rid of the slimy texture and the canned flavor of the corn, which also results in a more vibrant tasting corn.
You can also eat canned corn straight from the can as canned corn is already fully cooked during the canning process.
Canned corn is best enjoyed or eaten warmed up, but canned corn is safe to eat at room temperature right from the can, which makes the canned corn a great and quick easy addition to cold dishes like salads or just if you want to eat the canned corn by itself.
The canning process of the canned corn includes a process called blanching, which cooks the corn, so the canned corn doesn't require any further cooking before you eat it.
Although canned corn tastes better when it's heated and also when butter is added.
You can heat the canned in a saucepan, pot or microwave until it's warmed, but avoid boiling the canned corn as it can make the kernels tough and cause loss of flavor.
Corn is also man made and does not exist naturally.
Corn is a man made crop and was domesticated from the wild grass called teosinte through thousands of years of selective breeding by indigenous people in Mexico.
Today's corn does not exist wildly in the wild and corn relies on human cultivation to survive.
Teosinte which is a grass is the wild ancestor of corn.
Ancient farmers around 9,000 years ago began to cultivate the teosinte.
The teosinte ears were also small, with only a few kernels far apart, unlike the corn we know and eat today.
And over many generations, farmers also bred teosinte plants with desirable traits, like larger ears with more kernels.
The process of the artificial selection also transformed the corn plant into a more useful and productive food source.
And modern corn is also a product of the long process of domestication and is a crop which cannot survive on it's own in the wild.