What is Corn Flour

Corn flour

What is corn flour? Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to healthy eating. Many friends are eating whole grains, among which corn flour is a very common whole grain. So, what is corn flour? What are the effects of it on human health?

What is Corn Flour

1. What is corn flour?

Flour made from ground corn.

Corn flour has two types: yellow and white. Yellow corn flour is the most common, with a fine sand shape and good taste. In some developed countries such as the United States, corn flour has been listed as the first health food among cereal foods and is called the "golden crop."

2. Nutritional composition of corn flour [analyzed based on 100g]

Calories (kcal) 336 Calcium (mg) 10 Methionine 2.7 (mg)

Protein (g) 8.8 Magnesium (mg) 95 Riboflavin 0.7 (mg)

Carbohydrate (g) 66.7 Iron (mg) 2.2 Niacin 0.3 (mg)

Dietary fiber (g) 8 Manganese (mg) 51 Vitamin E 8.23 ​​(mg)

Vitamin A (μg) 0 Zinc (mg) 1.85 Vitamin C 0 (mg)

Carotene (μg) 1 Copper (mg) 26 Cholesterol 0 (mg)

Retinol (μg) 11.7 Phosphorus (mg) 244 Potassium 262 (mg)

Fat (g) 3.8 Selenium (mg) 4.14 Sodium 2.5 (mg)

3. The impact of corn flour on human health

Corn is mild in nature and sweet in taste, so most people can eat it with confidence. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and appetite, preventing cancer, lowering cholesterol, and strengthening the brain.

(1) Corn flour can prevent cell mutation in the human body and plays an important role in preventing cancer. After cancer became the biggest killer of people's health, people have paid more and more attention to health, starting from every aspect of diet, and began to pay attention to green health. Corn flour is rich in glutathione, which is an anti-cancer factor. It can combine with a variety of foreign chemical carcinogens in the human body, making them lose their toxicity and then be excreted from the body through the digestive tract.

(2) Corn flour is a very good weight loss food. Although corn flour seems to have a lot of calories, it is the best choice for obese people in terms of weight loss. Corn flour contains 8 mg of dietary fiber and 1 mg of carotene. It provides 8.8 grams of nutrients needed by the human body in terms of protein. In particular, the cellulose in corn flour can promote gastrointestinal motility, shorten the residence time of food residues in the intestines, and excrete harmful substances from the body, thus playing an important role in preventing and treating colorectal cancer.

(3) Corn flour can cure all diseases. Chinese medicine believes that corn is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of appetizing, strengthening the spleen, removing dampness, and diuresis. It is mainly used to treat diarrhea, indigestion, edema, etc. Corn is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, especially linoleic acid, which has a content of more than 60%. It works synergistically with vitamin E in corn germ to reduce blood cholesterol concentration and prevent it from depositing on blood vessel walls. Therefore, corn has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Vitamin E can also promote human cell division and delay aging. Corn also contains a longevity factor - glutathione, which, with the participation of selenium, produces glutathione oxidase, which has the function of restoring youth and delaying aging. The rich calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, selenium, vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, E and carotene have auxiliary therapeutic effects on cholecystitis, gallstones, icteric hepatitis and diabetes.

(4) Corn flour contains a lot of calcium and iron, which can prevent high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. Corn, a cheap whole grain, does not have much nutrition and is excluded from the table in cities in my country. At present, it is very popular in many European and American countries and has become a popular health food. Corn flour and soybean flour are mixed in a ratio of 3:1. This is a method recommended by the World Health Organization to eat whole grains in fine and improve the nutritional value. With the development of modern civilization, high blood pressure and other diseases of affluence have emerged, and corn flour is constantly gaining popularity.

(5) Corn is a health product among whole grains. It is very beneficial to human health and is recognized by the world as the "golden food" among grains. Corn flour contains linoleic acid and vitamin E, which can lower the cholesterol level in the human body and thus reduce the occurrence of arteriosclerosis. References: Henan Yuxiang Corn Food Processing Factory.