If you've ever done a search on Nutrition as far as corn is concerned,
you
will have found that our hypridized yellow as well as Northern White
corns
have little or NO nutrition other than pure starch to with which to
FATTEN
cattle! As far as Humans..it goes right through the bowels non stop
with little
or no digestion!

However you may find, if assiduous "hunting" is done that INDIAN corn,
all
varieties and colors ( not hybridized) yield a plethora of vitamins,
amino acids,
and minerals. Sic: "Blue corn meal" ( hard to find) is chocked full of
goodies.

I get a nice stock of Indian corn yearly during the Halloweeny
Holidays. It is
the ONLY time one can get this valuable and ancient corn seed. I am
goung to
shortly offer various "colours" hoping that a steady variety can be
grown in each
of about 3 to 4 shades, ( from pink through orange and red to black) I
did this a
number of yrs ago in the mountains of Calif along the San Andreas fault
and came
up with an hybrid I had read about once and then could never find it
again. It was a
GIANT corn cob with GIANT kernals. I somehow lost my "ear" wehn my jobs
(plural:
aerospace consulting) took us away fron Calif and to Colorado and
thence to Texas.

I am going to TRY agin this year and hopefully succeed. However I do
have some
selected colrs laid away and a few samples for anyone else who wishes to
re-introduce
this wonderful and nutritious variety of corn as opposed to yellow
Bantam and Great
Northern white...which have vrtually NO nutrition at all?? ( IAW www
search)
I cannot believe thet an itinerant corn farmer would settle for anything
but the BEST,
yet "buying all the LIES in the Books" seems to have become an American
tradition
resulting in health problems from hell!

I suggest to any serious Gardener to begin an hybridizatin program
leading BACK in
history to better and healthier days. Not just Corn but other
assiduously researched
veggies and fruits, etc, ( rasberries for instance that again are the
very best of all berries
for nutrition! ) Here's to a new world of health for this LAST and
FINAL millenia,
what's left of it! ( with Many WARS not withstanding...Armageddon
anyone??) B-0b1

--
"Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon.