What Ancient Farmers Had Right About Corn That We Ignore
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Date: 2022-07-06
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Slavko
What made me cringe in this video is the way he tried to imply that ancient people were smarter than people today although they didn't know about nutrients, germs or niacin. Following that logic we will come to conclusion that earth is flat.
Those ancient people didn't have pots that could be put directly on fire but instead they heated limestone in fire and put it inside the pot to heat the food. Making it alkaline by accident. Finding out maize is tastier that way and could be dried, ground and made into dough by just adding water. Later they found out they can make same alkaline result with ash or lye.
Now we know they had a lucky accident and that balanced diet is very important. If there is enough demand for corn treated that way it will be profitable and widely available, like it already is in parts of the world where it is traditional.
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What made me cringe in this video is the way he tried to imply that ancient people were smarter than people today although they didn't know about nutrients, germs or niacin. Following that logic we will come to conclusion that earth is flat.
Those ancient people didn't have pots that could be put directly on fire but instead they heated limestone in fire and put it inside the pot to heat the food. Making it alkaline by accident. Finding out maize is tastier that way and could be dried, ground and made into dough by just adding water. Later they found out they can make same alkaline result with ash or lye.
Now we know they had a lucky accident and that balanced diet is very important. If there is enough demand for corn treated that way it will be profitable and widely available, like it already is in parts of the world where it is traditional.
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Deus
This guy is a radical. -
- people did eat hominy during the Great Depression and they knew exactly why -
- those people dying of niacin deficiency would have died of starvation -
- he goes through this whole process dramatizing and and mystifying this ancient corn processing method and makes you think it's some Lost Art only known to central and South Americans when it's not, it's been practiced for years by other cultures. There are literally varieties of corn that are grown has heirlooms just to produce hominy.
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This guy is a radical. -
- people did eat hominy during the Great Depression and they knew exactly why -
- those people dying of niacin deficiency would have died of starvation -
- he goes through this whole process dramatizing and and mystifying this ancient corn processing method and makes you think it's some Lost Art only known to central and South Americans when it's not, it's been practiced for years by other cultures. There are literally varieties of corn that are grown has heirlooms just to produce hominy.
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education
The problem is, even if you were to Nixtamalize todays corn, 90% is genetically modified and filled with toxic pesticides. This is why its important to use organic corn and nixtamalize it to be healthy and nutritious. I think you can also remove anti nutrients by just sprouting it with water and not having to use an akali substance. Im happy more people are becoming aware of how toxic some food has became due to processing.
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The problem is, even if you were to Nixtamalize todays corn, 90% is genetically modified and filled with toxic pesticides. This is why its important to use organic corn and nixtamalize it to be healthy and nutritious. I think you can also remove anti nutrients by just sprouting it with water and not having to use an akali substance. Im happy more people are becoming aware of how toxic some food has became due to processing.
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August
I have a question. Pellagra is caused by a vitamin deficiency because your body can't absorb the nutrients in the corn. Other than the fact that the corn contains this vitamin, does the consumption of corn play any other roll.
Would this develop in a country whose staple food was something other than corn? Even if that food did not have the vitamin, or has the vitamin stored in a way our body's can't access.
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I have a question. Pellagra is caused by a vitamin deficiency because your body can't absorb the nutrients in the corn. Other than the fact that the corn contains this vitamin, does the consumption of corn play any other roll.
Would this develop in a country whose staple food was something other than corn? Even if that food did not have the vitamin, or has the vitamin stored in a way our body's can't access.
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Emma
If you want to make your own tortillas but don't have the time you can get instant corn flour, the brand I use is Maseca! The bag is bilingual so you can also learn a little Spanish too! You can probably find it in a Mexican grocery store or your local big chain stores in the international/Mexican section
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If you want to make your own tortillas but don't have the time you can get instant corn flour, the brand I use is Maseca! The bag is bilingual so you can also learn a little Spanish too! You can probably find it in a Mexican grocery store or your local big chain stores in the international/Mexican section
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education
Why is it so hard to just say that nixtamalization is the MAIN process used in PRESENT DAY Mexico and Central America? Rather than say that it-s only used in -areas with ancient ties to maize production- and, that it is, as the title of the video says, what -ancient farmers- got right? Smh.
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Why is it so hard to just say that nixtamalization is the MAIN process used in PRESENT DAY Mexico and Central America? Rather than say that it-s only used in -areas with ancient ties to maize production- and, that it is, as the title of the video says, what -ancient farmers- got right? Smh.
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Paul
I understand that you are passionate about your subject but could you please quit with the Billy Mays delivery. Yeah, you're a studly looking bro but forceful projection and hand waving does not lend a sense of credibility it just looks like you are selling something.
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I understand that you are passionate about your subject but could you please quit with the Billy Mays delivery. Yeah, you're a studly looking bro but forceful projection and hand waving does not lend a sense of credibility it just looks like you are selling something.
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unvexis
Southern Americans know nixtamalized corn as hominy. If possible, you should prefer to buy traditional hominy grits instead of modern grits or polenta. Historically, cheap cornmeals produced in large industrialized cities replaced hominy in most diets.
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Southern Americans know nixtamalized corn as hominy. If possible, you should prefer to buy traditional hominy grits instead of modern grits or polenta. Historically, cheap cornmeals produced in large industrialized cities replaced hominy in most diets.
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Rose
The pellagra did a lot of damage in Europe too. Because some S-E European countries were under turkish, the turks took away all other cereals, animals etc it remained only corn and because the nixtimilazation was not known people got sick, died.
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The pellagra did a lot of damage in Europe too. Because some S-E European countries were under turkish, the turks took away all other cereals, animals etc it remained only corn and because the nixtimilazation was not known people got sick, died.
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ExopMan
Quick version: soaking corn kernels in an alkaline solution helps our body process a bunch of otherwise wasted nutrients (see 2: 55. This used to be done by the OG's but is typically skipped in the modern mass production of corn products.
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Quick version: soaking corn kernels in an alkaline solution helps our body process a bunch of otherwise wasted nutrients (see 2: 55. This used to be done by the OG's but is typically skipped in the modern mass production of corn products.
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