Is Corn Nutritional?

• Steel Valley Football

  My daughter, two and a half, loves to have a bowl of corn next to a bowl of rice. My son is allergic.
  
  So, my wife suggests that corn has little nutritional value so we should stop altogether. I say she's completely wrong and was surprised at her thinking. I'll google later. Curious as to to what you guys say.
• justincredible

  

  Corn = filler.
  
  It's bad.
• Steel Valley Football

  Really? No shit. Anyone else?
• Steel Valley Football

  No help w digestion/#2?
• dave

  Yes corn is good for you. It doesn't count as a veggie though, she still needs green veggies.
  
  At that age it would be crazy to make her stop eating it, be glad she likes something healthy.
• like_that

  

  Chances are 95% of what she eats and drinks has corn in already.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Are your kids Asian, with the vegtables and rice?
• sleeper

  

  It's not good for you. It's a vegetable, but its the worst vegetable for you(even worse than potatoes).
• justincredible

  

  There is a reason animals are fed corn right before going to the butcher. It fattens them up.
• dwccrew

  

  It comes out looking the same way it went in. That can't be good............
• ernest_t_bass

  

  dave;842512 wrote:Yes corn is good for you. It doesn't count as a veggie though, she still needs green veggies.
  
  At that age it would be crazy to make her stop eating it, be glad she likes something healthy.

  
  Why doesn't it count as a veggie?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Son of a fucking bitch. I love corn, and thought it was good for you. What the fuck!
• password

  

  It all depends, how you are eating it?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  password;842588 wrote:It all depends, how you are eating it?

  
  Dip every bite in butter, smother it in salt, add lard, add sugar, add chips.
• password

  

  Then I would say you are eating it the healthy way and can expect to live to be 41 yrs old.
  
  Do you actually swallow all of that or do you spit some of it back out?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  If you are talking about eating actual corn, like fresh corn, then it does have a lot of nutritional value. It has B vitamins, fiber (which most people don't get nearly enough of), and various antioxidants. If you are talking about eating corn chips or corn syrup, your kid might as well eat some dog shit off of a neighbor's lawn.
• dwccrew

  

  Cleveland Buck;842592 wrote:If you are talking about eating actual corn, like fresh corn, then it does have a lot of nutritional value. It has B vitamins, fiber (which most people don't get nearly enough of), and various antioxidants. If you are talking about eating corn chips or corn syrup, your kid might as well eat some dog **** off of a neighbor's lawn.

  
  If the dog shit is as tasty as corn chips, I may have to get a dog.
• June18

  On a related note: Does anyone else not digest pineapple or lettuce? Both things come out the same way they went in. I mean pineapple makes my love juice tasty for the ladies but.....
• GoChiefs

  

  password;842591 wrote:Do you actually swallow all of that or do you spit some of it back out?

  
  Come on now, have you ever known ETB to spit out anything?
• friendfromlowry

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• sonofsam

  

  Corn is my favorite veggie... However, it does not have a nutritional value whatsoever.
• BR1986FB

  justincredible;842553 wrote:There is a reason animals are fed corn right before going to the butcher. It fattens them up.

  
  This is correct.
  
  Let's put it this way, you can eat corn but your body really doesn't utilize it. Not to be crude but next time you take a shit, look in the toilet and see where your corn has been "processed."
  
  All it does is makes you fat and it's why commercially raised vs grassfed beef gets a bad name. The farmers jam the corn down the cattles throat to fatten them up quickly so they can "turn & burn" them and move on to the next cow for processing. This corn lowers the natural Omega 3 levels (good stuff) and raises the Omega 6's (bad stuff).
• LJ

  

  dwccrew;842580 wrote:It comes out looking the same way it went in. That can't be good............

  
  Actually, it's because there is so much fiber in the skin of a kernal that your body cannot use it all. Next time you have tomato, cut it into tiny chunks with the skin on and swallow them whole, the same thing will happen.
• Apple

  

  This is the corniest thread I've seen in quite a while.
  
• ernest_t_bass

  

  GoChiefs;842622 wrote:Come on now, have you ever known ETB to spit out anything?

  
  I think it's sadder that you are sharing this info!