This a big alert!
This wonderful grain with its sweet fibre is now a vicious food.
The cause – it is mostly genetically modified and sprayed with Glyphosate- a herbicide that is a proven carcinogen used widely in the USA. The excess corn is then turned into corn sugar and flavourings widely used in packaged foods. American corn is marketed all over the world through GMO companies as it is more sweet than regular corn and we are all chomping away at a cancer producing grain.
Be extremely careful of the corn you may be having- as makki ka atta (whole corn flour), corn on cob, corn syrup and other curious formulations in packaged foods (to be avoided anyway for the many pitfalls)
I think this is the saddest piece I am writing as a big lover of ‘bhutta’- come rains, India would have handcarts with coal grilled corn on cob rubbed with lemon, black salt and chillies.
Goodbye to all that.
(Look out for organic non GMO corn though- it is available in small pockets)
