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Obi_Juan_Kenobi on July 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mexico's heirloom corn strains are resurging amid ...

Most people grow sweet corn in their gardens, so they won't be growing these.

There are heirloom sweet corn varieties, but they have to be cooked in minutes/hours from harvesting to remain sweet.

As far as the starchy corn, you won't get a lot of flavor difference.

blovescoffee on July 26, 2023 [–]

There is flavor difference in the starchy corns as well as texture difference! Obviously they all taste like corn but there's certainly variation.

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