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Sweetcorn (or sweet corn, also known as sugar corn), is a hybridized variety of maize (Zea mays), specifically bred to increase the sugar content. Sweetcorn is commonly known as simply corn in the United States, Canada, and Australia. In Brazil it is known as “Milho Verde” (Green Corn).
From open-pollinated corn have been hybridized corn cultivars that are not only sweeter, but which notably hold their sweetness longer, supposedly for a few days. There are “generations” of such sugary hybrids, from extra-sweet through, nowadays, “triple-sweets”. Corn fanciers like the holding power of the hybrids, but many feel that the true corn flavor is, in the more recent and sweeter hybrids, overpowered by the sweetness. The sweeter hybrids need to be isolated from other types, else they will cross-pollinate with them and lose their special character.
Open-pollinated corn is referred to as “su” (sugary) corn; the first generation of hybrid sweets is “se” (sugar-enhanced); the newer supersweets–which today comprise multiple classes–are “sh” (shrunken-gene).
In 2005, a poll of 2,000 people revealed that sweetcorn was Britain’s 2nd favourite culinary vegetable.