What Does Degerminated Mean?

Most commercial cornmeal is made from either yellow or white dent corn and milled via steel rollers, which gives it a uniform texture. It's also degerminated, meaning the nutritious, oily germ and bran are removed in processing.

What is degerminated white corn?

(a) Degerminated white corn meal, degermed white corn meal, is the food prepared by grinding cleaned white corn and removing bran and germ so that: (1) On a moisture-free basis, its crude fiber content is less than 1.2 percent and its fat content is less than 2.25 percent; and.

What means Degermed cornmeal?

What is whole-grain corn? It's corn that retains its nutritious center germ and its fibrous outer skin. Most cornmeal has been degermed, with oil from the germ put to use in making vegetable oil. Some, but not all, of the nutrients lost when corn is degermed are restored in enriched cornmeal. How much fiber?

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