HISTORY OF CORN
If there is something that is part of general cultural knowledge, it is that corn is native to Mexico. Thanks to the remains of seeds found in Tehuacan, Puebla, we know that approximately seven thousand years ago it began to be cultivated in our lands. Its domestication was a very important event for nomadic groups to eventually become sedentary and its cultivation was the livelihood of Mesoamerican peoples.
The word "corn" originally comes from the Caribbean; "corn" . is how it was called in Mesoamerica and it was the most consumed crop as well as the most resistant to climate variations and, therefore, the most loyal and closest to the indigenous life of the past
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INGREDIENTS OF OUR FLOUR
We offer nixtamalized white corn flour from the last harvest, which is made under a careful industrial process of nixtamalization, dehydration, milling and packaging. Our Tortiflavor flour is a flour with a combination of creole, white and hybrid corn, which when mixed give a different aroma, flavor and texture. "As they used to be distinguished in the tortillerías of the town". It can be used in all kinds of machines, mixers, tortillas for tacos, homemade tortillas and tamale dough, our flour has no additives!
PRESENTATIONS
Considered a sacred Food
Mesoamericans used corn not only for food, but also as an important part of their religious ceremonies. This can be seen in cultures such as the Mexica, who worshiped the goddess of corn, Centéotl; in the Mayan culture, it is related to stories such as the Popol Vuh, which tells that man was created by the gods with corn.
Corn: a male and female plant
The scientific name for corn is zea mays. Like many plants, it has a male and female part that work together to reproduce. The male part is called the tassel or stubble, which can be found at the end of the stalk and is composed of small flowers that produce pollen.
The female part is the corncob, which in turn, is made up of the leaves (which are the ones used to wrap tamales), the stigmas or corn hairs, which are the female flowers, and the corn kernels which are the ones used to make the dough for tortillas or the ones you eat in esquites or chascas.
Each kernel contains an embryo, which is the part that becomes a new plant. One corn has between four hundred and twelve hundred grains of corn. And what remains when the cob is shelled is called olote.
Spreading to the world
It was after the Conquest when this cereal left our continent to be planted, little by little, all over the world. In 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered corn in America and took it to Spain, from where it spread throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India and China.
It is the only cereal of American origin that has become one of the main crops worldwide. The increase in its consumption as a staple food was due to the fact that it yields more than wheat, rye or barley. Thanks to its low price, it became the main food and the central source of energy and protein for poor people.
Today, 85 percent of countries grow corn.It originated in the central region of Mexico through the fusion of plants that grew wild, such as the teocintle or teosinte. Corn belongs to the Poaceae or Gramineae family and is one of the oldest known food grains. It is a domesticated and highly productive plant that does not grow in the wild and is therefore completely dependent on human care.
Maize is considered to have been cultivated approximately 10,000 years ago B.C. The oldest known evidence is 6,250 years old, evidence found in the cave of Guila Naquitz, inOaxaca, a few kilometers from Mitla.
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