Like many pantry staples, cornmeal is inexpensive.But even regular cornmeal offers a healthy dose, with about 2 grams in 1/4 cup. Whole-grain cornmeal is a terrific source of fiber: Depending on the brand, it can have as much as 5 grams per 1/4 cup serving.The label will likely include the words “degerminated” and “enriched.” To make up for the loss of nutrients, steel-ground cornmeal is enriched with thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and iron.Look for whole-grain cornmeal - it’ll be labeled either “stone-ground” or “water-ground.” This type of milling retains some of the hull and germ of the corn, so it naturally packs more nutritional punch than regular, steel-ground varieties (what you’ll find on most supermarket shelves).No doubt about it, cornmeal is a Most Valuable Ingredient. The grain adds a mildly sweet, pleasantly rugged note to all kinds of recipes, from breakfast to dinner to midnight snack. But after their first wheat crop failed, the Pilgrims survived a harsh winter thanks to corn’s abundance in the New World, and the cornmeal it yielded. When you bite into a crumbly corn muffin, a Rhode Island johnnycake drizzled with maple syrup, or a corn dog at the state fair, you probably aren’t thinking that you’re eating a food crucial to our nation’s history.
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