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Corn Products We Use

Dessert!Chart showing the many uses of corn

The Story of Corn Flakes
The Health Food Company, Sanitarium, tells the complete story of how fields of corn end up as bowls of crisp corn flakes.

Corn on the Cob
The Post-Gazette article tells about recent developments in sweet corn.

A Zillion Uses for Corn
Wow…what a list of products that use corn compiled by the Ontario Corn Producers Association

A Versatile, Natural, Biodegradable, Renewable Resource
The Iowa Corn Promotion Board describes how corn affects our daily lifes.

The Many Uses of Corn
Check out this interesting diagram showing how the 9 billion bushels of corn produced each year are used.

New Uses of Corn
Today, the typical grocery store offers almost 4,000 products with corn ingredients on the label.

What can you get from a bushel of corn?
The Iowa Corn Promotion Board presents a list of products from Iowa corn that is processed by the corn wet milling industry.

Cool Products Made From Corn

Primary Products from Corn

In a World Without Corn...
Some examples of the little annoyances and bigger problems Americans would face without corn.

It Begins With A Kernel
Iowa Corn Production Board presents a list of the basic products made from corn.

Uses of Starch
U.S. Department of Agriculture shows a photo of many uses of starch that will surprise you.

Starch productsA Brief History of Corn Refining
The Corn Refiners Association tells the story of the corn refining industry.

What is corn refining?
The Corn Refiners Association presents a brief history of the corn refining industry. This Web site also includes many other links about the corn refining process, products made from corn.

Major Ethanol Projects and Accomplishments Across Iowa and the U.S.
The Energy Bureau of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources discusses how Iowa is a national leader in accelerating the acceptance of alternative transportation fuels -- particularly ethanol.

Ethanol Facts
The Iowa Corn Promotion Board presents ethanol facts and production statistics.

Statistics
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Commerce provide useful statistical information on corn refining and products made from corn.


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