Is there any nutritional value to sweetcorn?
Eating cooked sweet corn significantly boosts the grain’s health-giving antioxidant activity, which can substantially reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer. “There is a notion that processed fruits and vegetables have a lower nutritional value than fresh produce. Those original notions seem to be false, as cooked sweet corn retains its antioxidant activity, despite the loss of vitamin C,” says Rui Hai Liu assistant professor of food science at Cornell University. The researchers found cooked sweet corn increases levels of antioxidants. The scientists measured the antioxidants’ ability to quench free radicals, which cause damage to the body from oxidation. Cooked sweet corn also releases increased levels of ferulic acid, which provides health benefits, such as battling cancer.”When you cook it, you release it, and what you are losing in vitamin C, you are gaining in ferulic acid and total antioxidant activity. So its better to eat it just boiled than with salt or butter.
