How does corn turn into popcorn?

Answer 1

Actually, popcorn isn't grown popcorn naturally. It is slightly dehydrated corn bits. Then, when you put it in the microwave, it heats the water in it and makes it pop because the water turns into steam, the steam tries to break loose, then it pushes against the skin and POP!

Answer 2

Heating a kernel from the inside out, which involves the cooking of starch inside the corn kernel. The cooking of starch and water makes the kernel expand to the point of no return: the corn kernel simply explodes with the amount of pressure being exerted inside.

Answer 3

it is grown on the maize plant - sweetcorn plant. then it is dried and put into packets and sold. you buy it, and then you heat it in the microwave and it pops and turns into popcorn, hence the name!!

Answer 4

The same way regular or "normal" corn is grown. Pop corn is simply corn kernels that were harvested when they were in the hard-dough stage, where the kernels are so hard that they are hard as rock.

Popcorn is genetically a different kind of corn, in the same way that sweet corn, flint corn, field corn, and waxy corn (amongst others) are all different genotypes. Popcorn is a little more difficult to grow, in that there are no GE popcorn varieties, and the harvest moisture content is more critical. They're also a little more prone to insect damage. Popcorn is rarely (if ever) harvested with a combine harvester; rather, it is picked with a whole-ear picker, then dried to a very precise moisture content and shelled off the cob.

Answer 5

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