What country invented popcorn?

Popcorn has been around since the Song Dynasty in China.

Originally popcorn in China's Song Dynasty, the poet of the time Fan Chengda in his "Shi Hu Jie" had mentioned the custom of popping grain around Wuzhong on the Shangyuan Festival, and explained: "Fried glutinous grain to divination, the name of the grain Boluo, the northern people called glutinous rice flowers." Why is the popcorn called "Marco Polo"? Popcorn want to imitate the sound of popping grain, because the local dialect of the sound of thunder is called "Marco Polo".

Extended information:

Popcorn bad:

1, popcorn in the starch content of the child to eat more popcorn may reduce the appetite, affecting the main meal! A variety of nutrients intake, serious cases of nutritional imbalance.

2, the main ingredient of popcorn is starch, will add a part of the syrup, children eat more popcorn for a long time is likely to cause obesity. Growing children's excessive obesity is not conducive to growth and development.

3, popcorn in general will add syrup to increase the sweetness. Children eat popcorn will ingest a lot of sugar. Such eating habits will affect oral cleaning and dental development, dental caries and even cavities and other problems.

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