Maize the highly popular substitute food in India

Food stuffs and food habits differ from region to region in India. Rice and Wheat remains the most dominating food crops in India, but Maize or Corn is the next substitute that is widely popular in India. You must have heard in the northern parts of India, i.e. Punjab and Haryana region MakkeDii Roti and SarsonDaaSaag remains the all-time favourite savoury for people. A special Indian Bread made of maize flour.

Corn flour or maize flour, whatever you call it, is used across various countries of the globe. Due to the versatility of this crop, different agricultural climates perfectly fit the wonder crop.

Being a nutritious food for humans, it is also used in animal feed. The various benefits of the crop is globally known.Being one of the widely used staple foods, maize has its own success story.

In India maize is the third popular food grain after rice and wheat. 48 per cent of the total maize produced in India is used as poultry food, 11% for livestock feed, 28% is consumed as food, whereas 12% is used in starch and oil production, which in other words is called as wet milling. The rest 1 per cent is used as seed.

India roughly contributes to 2% of the total maize production of the world. Maize or corn is consumed as a whole after boiled or roasted. Sweet corn and normal corn are different in taste. Dried maize seeds are roasted and popcorn is made out of it. They are also flavoured and served as a popular snack. Movies and popcorn are glued to the human lives across the globe.