What is the raw material of popcorn?

The raw materials of popcorn are: ordinary popcorn is made by putting corn, ghee and sugar into a popcorn machine together.

The principle of popcorn: put a proper amount of corn (or rice) into the popcorn pot, seal the lid, and then put the popcorn pot on the stove to heat it evenly, so that delicious popcorn can be made.

This is because in the process of heating, the temperature in the pot keeps rising and the pressure of the gas in the pot keeps increasing. When the temperature rises to a certain extent, the rice grains will gradually soften and most of the water in the rice grains will turn into steam. Because of the high temperature, the pressure of water vapor is great, which makes the softened rice grains expand.

Historical source

Popcorn is an ancient puffed food. Hundreds of years ago, before European immigrants moved to this "new world", Indians living on this continent began to eat popcorn.

After Columbus returned to Europe, he once described to people the vivid scene of Indian children in the "New World" selling popcorn in the street wearing necklaces. It was also the Indians who taught the new immigrants in Europe how to grow and bake corn.

A historian also found popcorn eaten by ancient Indians 5000 years ago in a cave in New Mexico, USA, but because of the "technology" at that time, the taste was far from crisp as that of popcorn of the times.

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