Health Benefits Of Corn With Video By Sachin Goyal

Our mouth becomes full of taste of delicious and nutritious corn as soon as rainy season comes. So let’s talk about health benefits of corn (स्वास्थ्य के लिए मक्का का लाभ) today. Corn or maize is one of the most popular and versatile food grains and a good source of several nutrients.

It is rich in variety of vitamins, minerals and more importantly fiber, that takes care of your body by lowering the risk of various diseases and supplying your body with nutrients required for a healthy living. Let’s look to its nutritional chart below :

Nutritional value of corn per 100 gm :

Energy : 360 KJ (86 Kcal)
Protein : 3.27 gm
Dietary Fiber: 2 gm
Vitamin A : 9 μg
Vitamin B1 : 0.155 mg
Vitamin B2 : 0.055 mg
Vitamin B3 : 1.77 mg
Vitamin C : 6.8 mg
Iron : 0.52 mg
Magnesium : 57 mg
Potassium : 270 mg
Zinc : 0.46 mg

Source : Wikipedia

The best part of corn is that it is gluten free. Corn offers several health benefits because of the existence of top quality nutrition within. Some of the health benefits of corn are listed below in the post :

Health Benefits Of Corn – Video

Health Benefits Of Corn – 1

Corn is rich in medicinal properties which gives strength to weak stomach.

Take 1 corn ear and roast it over direct flame or over charcoal.
Apply salt and black pepper powder over it with lemon juice.
Eat it 2 to 3 times a week.

Eating it regularly for few weeks gives strength to stomach.

It helps to digest food and cures stomach weakness very quickly.

Health Benefits Of Corn – 2

Corn is rich in iron which cures anemia rapidly.

Add corn kernels of 1 corn and juice of 1 lemon to 250 ml water and boil it till kernels become soft.
Then sieve it and get corn kernels in a bowl.
Consume these corn kernels in 1 day. You can eat them for 1 month.

Iron of corn absorbs easily in body by eating it with lemon juice which cures anemia rapidly.

Health Benefits Of Corn – 3

Corn is rich in carotene which is very good for skin. Therefore corn is very good natural medicine for ring worms and itching etc.

Add 25 gm corn daliya or broken corn kernels and 100 ml water to pressure cooker and boil till 1 whistle.
Take out this corn daliya in a bowl.
Apply it over ring worm or area of itching when it is lukewarm. Leave it for 1 hour and then wash it with water.

Doing it daily once a day gives great benefit in ring worms and itching.

Health Benefits Of Corn – 4

Many people suffer from celiac disease in which they cannot eat things containing gluten.

Corn and Corn flour is gluten free. Therefore those who are suffering from celiac disease can use it without worry.
Roti made of corn flour is not only good for celiac sufferers but it also becomes balanced diet when consumed with green leafy vegetables by healthy people.

Corn is always beneficial for health in all forms i.e. boiled, roasted, grilled and everyone’s favorite sweet corn soup etc. Not only corn kernels but also corn silks pose medicinal properties. Corn liks are turned to ashes and then it is used to treat many diseases.

Ash of corn kernels also poses medicinal properties and is useful in many diseases. Also remember that using unprocessed corn is always better than processed corn.

Corn can be used in many forms i.e. corn kernels, corn meals, corn daliya, corn flour etc. and it is beneficial in all forms.When it is consumed with green leafy vegetables, chutney, jaggery, raita etc. then it becomes more beneficial for health.

Enjoy the almighty health benefits of Corn. Hope it will be very useful for you all.