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Red Corn

Seasonal Specialty/Vegetable

Description
Sweeeet! When it comes to seeing red, Colorful Harvest has successfully conquered corn! Deep rich red and exceptionally sweet in flavor, this variety deliciously and beautifully outshines them all. Considered very gourmet by chefs, red sweet corn offers a soft yet firm texture and its vivid color actually deepens when cooked. Truly a-maizing!

Grow Region
California Florida

Storage Temperature
At first primarily favored as a seasonal decoration, red sweet corn is quickly gaining popularity as a tasty edible in the culinary world. Chefs especially love its good looks and great taste. Whether raw, on the cob or the tasty kernels cut from the cob and made into corn salsa, chutney, salad, red sweet corn is simply scrumptious. Although wonderful steamed or boiled, grilling brings out this corn's best flavor and rich color. Add a colorful corny flair to stews, soups and casseroles. Red corn makes great cornmeal. Cornmeal is dried corn kernels that are ground into a fine, medium or coarse texture and is most commonly marketed in yellow or white. Special varieties of cornmeal are made from red and blue corn. Make an edible festive and colorful "cornival"! Blend red, blue, yellow, white, purple, bicolor and tricolor corn to a-maize guests! To store, refrigerate up to five days for optimum quality. If left at room temperature, the red color of the kernels will seep back into the cob.

Availability

Seasons/Availability
California Red Sweet Corn season is mid-June to October. Florida Red Sweet Corn is available April to May.

Nutritional Facts

Red sweet corn provides twenty percent more protein than white corn or yellow corn. Anthocyanin, the pigment that creates the red color in this corn, is high in antioxidants. Red Sweet Corn contains a whopping 350 percent more antioxidants than regular white or yellow corn.