Wheat is a common allergent. Dried Blue Corn Can be ground up into cornmeal for cornbread or grits, groats, or flour. The corn provides amino acids to complement those in the other seeds and beans. Blue is open pollinated, i.e. grown with butterflies, bees, and the wind. The familiar all yellow ear as illustrated at the left, is almost always a hybrid which cannot be used as seed to plant the next generation.
Blue corn is higher in protein than yellow.
Superbly different taste. The ancient chemical treatment given their maize by our Native American Indians of the southwest, and as currently practiced by Mayan descendants in Mexico and Central America is a simple and safe wet soak that unlocks proteins and minerals otherwise not digestable from corn. See instructions in Corn Report . Sometimes the original ideas are still the best. The wheel hasn't changed much in thousands of years, and tasty and nutritious spelt, one of the first grains to be grown by early farmers as long ago as 5,000 BC., is finding renewed popularity with American consumers.