/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11054810]

Why is corn so hard to digest?

[Anonymous No.11054815]

>>11054810
Because only beaners are supposed to eat it

[Anonymous No.11054825]

>>11054810
Mostly cellulose and seed coat, and very starchy carbs. But if you're seeing whole kernels, you aren't chewing well enough.

[Anonymous No.11054829]

>>11054825
>if you're seeing whole kernels, you aren't chewing well enough
Well who'da tunk it?

[Anonymous No.11054866]

>>11054810
put shucked ears in cold water. when it starts to boil it's done. best corn advice I ever had. don't boil that shit.

[Anonymous No.11054900]

Native's revenge on the white man

[Anonymous No.11054905]

It's not food

[Anonymous No.11054918]

>>11054900
That's a pretty lame revenge considering new world white people grow and export shit tons of corn.
The real vengeance is making whites self loathing, and I think that was soley Big Nose tribe (you would deny my native ancestry, goyim!? Shut up and drink your firewater!)

[Anonymous No.11054929]

>>11054918
yea that too

[Anonymous No.11055863]

>>11054810
>Hard to digest
Why are people have such shitty stomach? Stop eating only tendies, reeeeeetard.
>>11054918
(You)

[Anonymous No.11055871]

I could care less, my body doesn't want everything else is that is in my turds, little corn pieces just means I need to quit picking through my shit and trying to categorize everything.

[Anonymous No.11055877]

>>11055863
Human beings can't digest cellulose, anon. What are you, a termite?

[Anonymous No.11055885]

>>11054810
Because it only really works as a staple food when you nixtamalize it. Just eating sweet corn or making cornbread (or polenta or grits) isn't that good a use of the stuff. Most of the amino acids aren't bio-available. That's why Italians adopting polenta as a staple food ended up with pellagra. Corn only makes sense as a staple food when it's nixtamalized.

[Anonymous No.11055892]

>>11055877
Isn't that fake news? If people can't digest cellulose then how do we break up plant cell walls to get the nutrients inside any fruit/veggie? Chewing alone doesn't get every little bit out.

[Anonymous No.11055895]

>>11055877
I can't believe you can't digest cellulose, you guys are so inferior to us. If I were a termite, why would I waste my two years of life shitposting here?

[Anonymous No.11055897]

because our stomach literally does not have the bacteria needed to digest the outer part

[Anonymous No.11055902]

>>11055892
Enzymes, plant cell walls aren't impenetrable bubbles

[Anonymous No.11055908]

>>11055892
>If people can't digest cellulose then how do we break up plant cell walls to get the nutrients inside any fruit/veggie?

We don't, at least not very effectively. That's one of the reasons why many nutrients are more bio-available from meat products than from plants. Human beings lack the digestive adaptations to digest plants efficiently. If you look at the animal kingdom you will see that animals which consume only plants have specialized adaptations for it. For example, sloths have fermenting guts. Ruminants like cows have "multiple stomachs" and chew their cud (they vomit already-swallowed food back into their mouth so they can chew it again). Smaller herbivores like rabbits, hamsters, etc, eat their own feces in order to re-digest them, and so on.

[Anonymous No.11055917]

>>11055908
are mammals just inherently shitty plant eaters

[Anonymous No.11055920]

>>11055908
That's a partial answer. Another is cooking. Cooking turns poisonous shit like beans into nutritious food. Cooking breaks down fiber and makes more nutrients bio-available. Fermentation can work similar wonders. And in the case of corn there's nixtamalization, which allows the people of Mexico and other Latin American places to use corn as a dietary staple without getting pellagra.

Basically we work out clever tricks to get around the limits of what our digestions can handle.

[Anonymous No.11055948]

>>11054866
Steam it.