Should I eat sweet corn or waxy corn to lose weight?

When choosing corn, there are usually two options: sweet corn and waxy corn. Generally speaking, people will choose based on taste. If they like crispy and sweet, choose sweet corn, and if they like delicate, soft and waxy, choose waxy corn.

And people who are trying to lose weight and diabetics are likely to choose waxy corn. After all, sweet corn has the word "sweet", and everyone thinks it has more sugar and higher calories. But the senior nutritionist who gave the explosive nutrition class told everyone that this choice is wrong:

How many calories does sweet corn have? How wrong! The data shows that sweet corn has 86 calories per 100 grams of edible portion. Waxy corn has 144 calories, which is about twice as much as sweet corn.

In daily life, many people will use corn to replace part of their meals when they are in the weight loss stage. But per 100 grams of rice, its energy is 116 kcal, and the energy of glutinous corn is higher than that of rice. How can it be suitable for people who want to lose weight?

In fact, sweet corn tends to taste sweeter due to its high soluble sugar content. But it’s not just soluble sugar that determines energy, because the total carbohydrate content of waxy corn is much higher than that of sweet corn, so the caloric content will be higher.

For people with diabetes, the same principle applies. The carbohydrate content of sweet corn is only 63% of that of waxy corn, and the sugar in waxy corn is mainly amylopectin that raises blood sugar quickly. Therefore, from the perspective of blood sugar control, sweet corn is obviously the better choice.

To sum up, both weight loss groups and diabetics are more suitable to eat sweet corn. Of course, if you use it to replace part of the meal, you need to pay attention to increasing your protein intake.

At this point, some people may ask: Sweet corn has advantages in terms of taste, calories, and sugar-raising ability, and the price is similar to waxy corn. So isn’t waxy corn useless?

Of course not, the biggest advantage of waxy corn is that it has high dietary fiber content, which is 3.7 times that of sweet corn, and its amylopectin content is also high.

Everyone knows the benefits of dietary fiber. It can promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation. The high content of chain-linked tapioca starch makes it softer and more glutinous when eaten, and is easily digested and absorbed. Therefore, it is especially suitable for people with poor teeth and gastrointestinal problems.

Finally, the senior nutritionist who taught the explosive nutrition class reminded everyone that salt can be added to boiled corn to bring out the sweet taste of the corn itself and make the taste stronger. But remember not to add alkali, because this will destroy vitamin b21 and vitamin b22, and these two vitamins are nutrients that ordinary people generally lack.