Only two of the items on this menu do not contain grain corn, the same corn that many people refer to as cattle corn or dent corn. The remainder of the crop is used for industrial and commercial applications. Some of the corn may be exported. Gravy - corn starch can be used in making gravy as a thickening agent. The niblets are sweet corn.
Sweet corn accounts for about five per cent of total corn production in Ontario.
Homemade white bread - this recipe calls for margarine, which could be a corn oil margarine, used as an ingredient in the bread and for greasing the baking pans. Homemade French dressing - may contain corn oil as one of its ingredients. Deluxe pecan pie - contains both corn syrup and corn oil. If the pastry is a ready made, cholesterol-free, pie shell bought at the grocery store, it may contain dextrose, a sweetener made from grain corn. Maltodextrin is also used in instant soup mixes and other packages where the contents must be kept free flowing.