• Popping corn is different from ordinary corn; the kernels are harder and drier
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• Each kernel has a hard, yellow outer layer of starch called pericarp.
• Popcorn is made up of starch, fibre, vitamins and water.
• The white fluffy stuff is the starch that’s been cooked by the heat.
• The pericarp is hard fibre and fibre makes your poos float.
• When popcorn explodes it can expand up to 30 or 40 times its original size.
• People have been eating popcorn for about 7000 years.
• The oldest known popcorn was found, still fluffy white in a bag attached to the belt of a mummy in Chile.
.• Each kernel has a hard, yellow outer layer of starch called pericarp.
• Popcorn is made up of starch, fibre, vitamins and water.
• The white fluffy stuff is the starch that’s been cooked by the heat.
• The pericarp is hard fibre and fibre makes your poos float.
• When popcorn explodes it can expand up to 30 or 40 times its original size.
• People have been eating popcorn for about 7000 years.
• The oldest known popcorn was found, still fluffy white in a bag attached to the belt of a mummy in Chile.
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