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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Sorry, the corn grown for ethanol is not suitable for eating. It is a special type designed/grown to optimize fuel production.
That said, I would be just as happy if they did away with gasohol. Don't like it or much of anything about it.
That said, It will make a very small impact on fast price for a limited number of people. So, better than nothing, but just barely.
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From the Nebraska Corn Board
Field corn is the classic big ears of yellow dented corn you see dried and harvested in the fall. In fact, it’s sometime called “dent corn” because of the distinctive dent that forms on the kernel as the corn dries.
Field corn has dozens of uses, but it is most commonly fed to animals or used to make renewable fuels like ethanol to power our cars and trucks. But only part of the kernel is used for ethanol (the starch), the rest of the kernel, including the protein and fat, are then used to make another popular animal feed known as distillers grains.
People don’t eat field corn directly from the field because it’s hard and certainly not sweet. Instead, field corn must go through a mill and be converted to food products and ingredients like corn syrup, corn flakes, yellow corn chips, corn starch or corn flour.