Popcorn 100 seeds - Grow your own
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Popcorn seeds - Grow your own Price for Package of 100 seeds (23g).  100% NATURAL POPCORN NON-GMO, NOT GENETICALLY MODIFIED. SIMPLY PURE AND NATURAL! Popcorn  (popped corn,  popcorns  or  pop-corn) is a variety of  corn  kernel, which expands and puffs up when heated. A popcorn kernel's strong hull contains the seed's hard, starchy  endosperm  with 14–20% moisture, which turns to steam as the kernel is heated.  Pressure  from the steam continues to build until the hull ruptures, allowing the kernel to forcefully expand from 20 to 50 times its original size—and finally, cool.[1] Some  strains  of corn (taxonomized as  Zea mays) are cultivated specifically as popping corns. The  Zea mays  variety  everta,  a special kind of  flint corn, is the most common of these. The six major types of corn are  dent corn,  flint corn,  pod corn, popcorn,  flour corn, and  sweet corn. History Corn was first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in what is now  Mexico.[3]  Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of years. In Mexico, for example, remnants of popcorn have been found that date to around 3600 BC.[4] Popping of the kernels was achieved by hand on the stove-top through the 19th century. Kernels were sold on the  East Coast of the United States  under names such as  Pearls  or  Nonpareil. The term  popped corn  first appeared in  John Russell Bartlett's 1848  Dictionary of Americanisms.[5][6]  Popcorn is an ingredient in  Cracker Jack, and in the early years of the product, it was popped by hand.[5] An early popcorn machine in a street cart, invented in the 1880s by Charles Cretors in Chicago. Popcorn's accessibility increased rapidly in the 1890s with Charles  Cretors' invention of the popcorn maker. Cretors, a Chicago candy store owner, created a number of steam-powered machines for roasting nuts and applied the technology to the corn kernels. By the turn of the century, Cretors had created and deployed street carts equipped with steam-powered popcorn makers.[7] During the  Great Depression, popcorn was fairly inexpensive at 5–10 cents a bag and became popular. Thus, while other businesses failed, the popcorn business thrived and became a source of income for many struggling farmers, including the Redenbacher family, namesake of the  famous popcorn brand. During  World War II, sugar  rations  diminished  candy  production, and Americans compensated by eating three times as much popcorn as they had before.[8]  The snack was popular at theaters, much to the initial displeasure of many of the theater owners, who thought it distracted from the films. Their minds eventually changed, however, and in 1938 a Midwestern theater owner named Glen W. Dickson installed popcorn machines in the lobbies of his theaters. The venture was a financial success, and the trend soon spread.[5] gangnaengi, Korean popcorn In 1970,  Orville Redenbacher's namesake brand of popcorn was launched. In 1981, General Mills received the first patent for a microwave popcorn bag, with popcorn consumption seeing a sharp increase by tens of thousands of pounds in the years following.[7] At least six localities (all in the  Midwestern United States) claim to be the "Popcorn Capital of the World;":  Ridgway, Illinois;  Valparaiso, Indiana;  Van Buren, Indiana;  Schaller, Iowa;  Marion, Ohio; and  North Loup, Nebraska. According to the  USDA,  corn  used for popcorn production is specifically planted for this purpose; most is grown in  Nebraska  and  Indiana, with increasing area in  Texas.[9][10]  As the result of an  elementary school  project, popcorn became the official state snack food of  Illinois.[11] Popping mechanism The sequence of a kernel popping Each kernel of popcorn contains a certain amount of moisture and oil. Unlike most other grains, the outer hull of the popcorn kernel is both strong and impervious to moisture and the starch inside consists almost entirely of a hard type.[12] As the oil and the water within the kernel are heated, they turn the moisture in the kernel into pressurized steam. Under these conditions, the starch inside the kernel  gelatinizes, softens, and becomes pliable. The internal pressure of the entrapped steam continues to increase until the breaking point of the hull is reached: a pressure of approximately 135 psi (930 kPa)[12]  and a temperature of 180 °C (356 °F). The hull thereupon ruptures rapidly and explodes, causing a sudden drop in pressure inside the kernel and a corresponding rapid expansion of the steam, which expands the starch and  proteins  of the endosperm into airy  foam. As the foam rapidly cools, the starch and protein  polymers  set into the familiar crispy puff.[12]  Special varieties are grown to give improved popping yield. Though the kernels of some wild types will pop, the cultivated strain is  Zea mays everta,  which is a special kind of  flint corn. Popcorn on the cob before shelling Cooking methods An in-home hot-air popcorn maker Popcorn can be cooked with butter or oil. Although small quantities can be popped in a stove-top  kettle  or pot in a home kitchen, commercial sale of freshly popped popcorn employs specially designed popcorn machines, which were invented in  Chicago, Illinois, by  Charles Cretors  in 1885. Cretors successfully introduced his invention at the  Columbian Exposition  in 1893. At this same world's fair, F.W. Rueckheim introduced a  molasses-flavored "Candied Popcorn," the first  caramel corn; his brother, Louis Ruekheim, slightly altered the recipe and introduced it as  Cracker Jack  popcorn in 1896.[13] Cretors's invention introduced the first  patented  steam-driven  popcorn machine that popped corn in oil. Previously, vendors popped corn by holding a wire basket over an open flame. At best, the result was a hot, dry, unevenly cooked snack. Cretors's machine popped corn in a mixture of one-third  clarified butter, two-thirds  lard, and  salt. This mixture can withstand the 450 °F (232 °C) temperature needed to pop corn and it produces little smoke. A fire under a  boiler  created steam that drove a small engine; that engine drove the gears, shaft, and agitator that stirred the corn and powered a small automated clown puppet-like figure, "the Toasty Roasty Man," an attention attracting amusement intended to drum up business. A wire connected to the top of the cooking pan allowed the operator to disengage the drive mechanism, lift the cover, and dump popped corn into the storage bin beneath. Exhaust from the steam engine was piped to a hollow pan below the corn storage bin and kept freshly popped corn uniformly warm for the first time. Excess steam was also used to operate a small, shrill whistle to further attract attention.[14] A very different method of popcorn-making can still be seen on the streets of some  Chinese  cities and Korea today. The un-popped corn kernels are poured into a large  cast-iron  canister—sometimes called a 'popcorn hammer'—that is then sealed with a heavy lid and slowly turned over a curbside fire in  rotisserie  fashion. When a  pressure gauge  on the canister reaches a certain level, the canister is removed from the fire, a large  canvas  sack is put over the lid and the seal is released. With a huge boom, all of the popcorn explodes at once and is poured into the sack.[15][16][17]  This method is believed to have originally been developed during the  Song dynasty  as a method of  puffing rice. Individual consumers can also buy and use specialized popping appliances that typically generate no more than a gallon or about four liters of popped corn per batch. Some of these appliances also accept a small volume of oil or melted butter to assist thermal transfer from a stationary heating element, but others are "air poppers" which rapidly circulate heated air up through the interior, keeping the un-popped kernels in motion to avoid burning and then blowing the popped kernels out through the chute. The majority of popcorn sold for home consumption is now packaged in a  microwave popcorn  bag for use in a microwave oven.[18] Expansion and yield Popping results are sensitive to the rate at which the kernels are heated. If heated too quickly, the steam in the outer layers of the kernel can reach high pressures and rupture the hull before the starch in the center of the kernel can fully gelatinize, leading to partially popped kernels with hard centers. Heating too slowly leads to entirely unpopped kernels: the tip of the kernel, where it attached to the cob, is not entirely moisture-proof, and when heated slowly, the steam can leak out of the tip fast enough to keep the pressure from rising sufficiently to break the hull and cause the pop.[19] Producers and sellers of popcorn consider two major factors in evaluating the quality of popcorn: what percentage of the kernels will pop, and how much each popped kernel expands. Expansion is an important factor to both the consumer and vendor. For the consumer, larger pieces of popcorn tend to be more tender and are associated with higher quality. For the grower, distributor, and vendor, expansion is closely correlated with profit: vendors such as theaters buy popcorn by weight and sell it by volume. For both these reasons, higher-expansion popcorn fetches a higher profit per unit weight. Popcorn will pop when freshly harvested, but not well: its high moisture content leads to poor expansion and chewy pieces of popcorn. Kernels with a high moisture content are also susceptible to mold when stored. For these reasons, popcorn growers and distributors dry the kernels until they reach the moisture level at which they expand the most. This differs by variety and conditions, but is generally in the range of 14–15% moisture by weight. If the kernels are over-dried, the expansion rate will suffer and the percentage of kernels that pop at all will decline. When the popcorn has finished popping, sometimes unpopped kernels remain. Known in the popcorn industry as "old maids,"[20]  these kernels fail to pop because they do not have enough moisture to create enough steam for an explosion. Re-hydrating prior to popping usually results in eliminating the unpopped kernels. Popcorn varieties are broadly categorized by the shape of the kernels, the color of the kernels, or the shape of the popped corn. While the kernels may come in a variety of colors, the popped corn is always off-yellow or white as it is only the hull (or pericarp) that is colored. "Rice" type popcorn have a long kernel pointed at both ends; "pearl" type kernels are rounded at the top. Commercial popcorn production has moved mostly to pearl types.[21]  Historically, pearl popcorn were usually yellow and rice popcorn usually white. Today both shapes are available in both colors, as well as others including black, red,  mauve, purple, and  variegated. Mauve and purple popcorn usually has smaller and nutty kernels. Commercial production is dominated by white and yellow.[22] Terminology "Mushroom"-shaped popcorn, left, is less fragile and less tender than "butterfly"-shaped, right. In the popcorn industry, a popped kernel of corn is known as a "flake." Two shapes of flakes are commercially important. "Butterfly" (or "snowflake")[23]  flakes are irregular in shape and have a number of protruding "wings". "Mushroom" flakes are largely ball-shaped, with few wings. Butterfly flakes are regarded as having better  mouthfeel, with greater tenderness and less noticeable hulls. Mushroom flakes are less fragile than butterfly flakes and are therefore often used for packaged popcorn or  confectionery, such as  caramel corn.[22]  The kernels from a single cob of popcorn may form both butterfly and mushroom flakes; hybrids that produce 100% butterfly flakes or 100% mushroom flakes exist, the latter developed only as recently as 1998.[22]  Growing conditions and popping environment can also affect the butterfly-to-mushroom ratio. When referring to multiple pieces of popcorn, it is acceptable to use the term "popcorn". When referring to a singular piece of popcorn, the accepted terminology is kernel. Consumption Popcorn grown in Mozambique and sold in the marketplace Movie theater popcorn in a bucket in the United States Popcorn is a popular  snack food  at sporting events and in  cinemas, where it has been served since the 1930s.[24]  Cinemas have come under fire due to their high markup on popcorn; Stuart Hanson, a film historian at De Montfort University in Leicester once said  "One of the great jokes in the industry is that popcorn is second only to cocaine or heroin in terms of profit."[25] Popcorn smell has an unusually attractive quality for human beings. This is largely because it contains high levels of the chemicals  6-acetyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydropyridine  and  2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, very powerful  aroma compounds  that are used by food and other industries to make products that either smell like popcorn, bread, or other foods containing the compound in nature, or for other purposes.[citation needed ] Popcorn as a  breakfast cereal  was consumed by Americans in the 1800s and generally consisted of popcorn with milk and a sweetener.[26] Popcorn balls (popped kernels stuck together with a sugary "glue") were hugely popular around the turn of the 20th century, but their popularity has since waned. Popcorn balls are still served in some places as a traditional  Halloween  treat.  Cracker Jack  is a popular, commercially produced candy that consists of  peanuts  mixed in with  caramel-covered popcorn.  Kettle corn  is a variation of normal popcorn, cooked with white sugar and salt, traditionally in a large copper kettle. Once reserved for specialty shops and county fairs,  kettle corn  has recently become popular, especially in the  microwave  popcorn market. The  popcorn maker  is a relatively new  home appliance, and its popularity is increasing because it offers the opportunity to add flavors of the consumer's own choice and to choose healthy-eating popcorn styles. Nutritional value Popcorn, air-popped, no additives Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) Energy 1,598 kJ (382 kcal) Carbohydrates 78 g Dietary fiber 15 g Fat 4 g Protein 12 g Vitamins Quantity%DV† Thiamine  (B1) 17% 0.2 mg Riboflavin  (B2) 25% 0.3 mg Minerals Quantity%DV† Iron 21% 2.7 mg One cup is 8 grams. Units μg =  micrograms • mg =  milligrams IU =  International units †Percentages are roughly approximated using  US recommendations  for adults.  Source: USDA Nutrient Database Air-popped popcorn is naturally high in  dietary fiber  and  antioxidants,[27]  low in calories and fat, and free of sugar and sodium.[28]  This can make it an attractive snack to people with dietary restrictions on the intake of calories, fat or sodium. For the sake of flavor, however, large amounts of fat, sugar, and sodium are often added to prepared popcorn, which can quickly convert it to a very poor choice for those on restricted diets. One particularly notorious example of this first came to public attention in the mid-1990s, when the  Center for Science in the Public Interest  produced a report about "Movie Popcorn", which became the subject of a widespread publicity campaign. The movie theaters surveyed used  coconut oil  to pop the corn, and then topped it with  butter  or  margarine. "A medium-size buttered popcorn", the report said, "contains more fat than a breakfast of  bacon  and  eggs, a  Big Mac  and  fries, and a  steak  dinner combined."[29]The practice continues today. For example, according to DietFacts.com, a small popcorn from  Regal Cinema Group  (the largest theater chain in the United States)[30]  still contains 29 g of saturated fat.[31]  the equivalent of a full day-and-a-half's  reference daily intake.[32] However, in studies conducted by the  Motion Picture Association of America  it was found that the average American only attends six movies a year and that movie theater popcorn and other movie theater snacks are viewed as a treat that is not intended to be part of a regular diet.[33] Health risks A person eating popcorn out of a bowl Popcorn is included on the list of foods that the  American Academy of Pediatrics  recommends not serving to children under four, because of the risk of  choking.[34] Microwaveable popcorn represents a special case, since it is designed to be cooked along with its various flavoring agents. One of these formerly common artificial-butter flavorants,  diacetyl, has been implicated in causing respiratory illnesses in microwave popcorn factory workers, also known as "popcorn lung." Major manufacturers in the United States have stopped using this chemical, including:  Orville Redenbacher's,  Act II,  Pop Secret  and  Jolly Time.[citation needed ][35][36] Other uses Popcorn, threaded onto a string, is used as a wall or  Christmas tree decoration  in some parts of  North America,[37][38]  as well as on the  Balkan peninsula.[39] Some shipping companies have experimented with using popcorn as a  biodegradable  replacement for  expanded polystyrene  packing material. However, popcorn has numerous undesirable properties as a packing material, including attractiveness to  pests,  flammability, and a higher cost and greater density than expanded polystyrene. A more processed form of expanded corn foam has been developed to overcome some of these limitations.[40] Currently the world's largest popcorn ball (by weight) is located in  Sac City,  Iowa, and weighs 9,370 pounds (4,250 kg). Former title holders were located in  Indianapolis,  Indiana, and three more times previously in Sac City.

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