Corn, Sweet Whole (Zea mays) 1 lb: K

This is Frontier's nitrogen-flushed double wall silverfoil pack. Some Frontier packs are double wall wax-lined paper. Corn or maize is a domesticated plant of the Americas. Over a period of thousands of years, Native Americans purposefully transformed maize from a wild grass (Teosinte) originally growing in southern Mexico 7,000 years ago. By systematically collecting and cultivating those plants best suited for human consumption, Native Americans encouraged the formation of ears or cobs on early maize. The first ears of maize were only a few inches long and had only eight rows of kernels. Eventually the productivity of maize cultivation was great enough to make it possible for a family to produce food for the bulk of their diet for an entire year from a small area. Along with many other indigenous plants like beans, squash, melons, tobacco, and roots such as Jerusalem artichoke, European colonists in America quickly adopted maize agriculture from Native Americans. Crops developed by Native Americans quickly spread to other parts of the world as well. This sweet, nutitious vegetable eventually transformed human agriculture worldwide.