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It is from the wheatgrass family. It is a one-year herbaceous plant and can be between 1.5-3 meters in height depending on the region where it grows. Its leaves are in the shape of a long thin lancet, tapering towards the tip. The edges of the leaves are whole, wavy, with a large grayish white main vein in the middle and parallel to it, a dozen right and left lateral veins extend. The male and female flowers stand separately, but are on the same plant. Female flowers are tassels coming out of the cob. Its fruit is called corn cob for short and 100-200 pieces of corn seeds are arranged on this husband.

Cultivation Locations: Homeland corn to South America, was brought to Europe by sailors after the discovery of the Americas. From there, the mainland Africa, the country that brought us out of Egypt, our language is thought to be the name of this plant corn. Turkey’s climate is well suited for Egypt, therefore, it is grown over a wide area ..

Collection – Storage: Ripening corn cobs collected and dried starch or oil obtained therefrom. Corn tassels are collected in June or July, dried in the shade and stored in special closed containers.

Known compositions: grains of corn plants with high starch unsaturated fatty acids include vitamin A and sterols. The ingredients of corn tassel used as medicine are: Sugars such as glucose and maltose, sterols, resin, potassium salts and essential oil.

Areas of application: The corn oil obtained from kernel as liquid vegetable cooking oil, is known to prevent atherosclerosis. In addition, corn kernels are used in the feed industry for animals due to their nutritional value. Flour is obtained from its grains. In fact, its use is becoming widespread today.