What is corn?
maize is a fungal infection of corn or corn ustilago maydis . Most of the majority of the United States maize farmers are considered harassment. However, the Latin American cuisine is consumed.
In Mexico, Corn is sadly called huitlacoche , the word derived from Nahatl, perhaps means "sleeping excrement", "Raven's excrement" or "corn excrement". It replaces corn cores with tumors similar to mushrooms or galls consisting of disturbed black spores, fiber fibers and enlarged corn cells. It also reduces the yield of normal corn. In addition to its use in the kitchen, corn can also be used to make silage, cattle and sheep feed.
The consumption of corn sadness comes from the pre -colonial period, when corn plants were sometimes intentionally infected with a sponge cutting a plant near the attic. The native Americans in the southwest also used corn sad for their healing properties, especially to evoke work. Huitlacoche Muskles when Ml isAdý, or there are too many disputes, causing Gall to dry. The corn sadness grows preferably in the dry season, at temperatures from 78 ° F to 93 ° F (25 ° C - 34 ° C).
Ustilago Maydis is required to infect maize at a particular stage of its life cycle. It cannot be maintained in laboratory conditions. Mature spores are released from tumors in corn cores and spread through rain and wind.
corn plants infected with corn sadly develop symptoms of the disease. One of the most common is chlorosis or insufficient chlorophyll production, leading to light yellow or white leaves. Reduced growth can also affect the plant as well as red, blue or purple pigmentation caused by anthocyanine. Corn also develops a burned look.
In Mexico, Huitlacoche is considered a delicacy and is more expensive than corn. Usually sells fresh but yen cannedNo. It is served in various foods such as QueSadilly and other tortilla -based meals. Huitlacoche has earthy, woody, spicy, but sweet taste similar to the taste of mushrooms.
In 1989, the James Beard Foundation, which promotes culinary art, tried to popularize corn sad as a delicacy by holding a high -ranking dinner and renamed Huitlacoche "Mexican truffle". Food has gained a brief popularity where Pennsylvania and Florida Farms acquired the permission of the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States (USDA) intentionally infect their corn crops Ústabis Maydis . The initiative is still ongoing and Huitlacoce is increasingly often on farmers' markets.