Zone Fresh’s Finest
SWEET CORN
$1.89 – $3.29
- A member of the grass family.
- Kernels or seeds are a milky pulp enclosed in a skin and grow on the cob.
- Sweet corn are hybrids of maize that were selected for their high sugar content.
- Cob is covered by layers of fibrous husks.
- The plant is upright and leafy and can grow up to 2m in height.
- Shallow but extensive, fibrous root system.
- A single cluster of male flowers (tassel) grows at the top of the plant.
- Female flowers are the ‘silks’ which grow halfway up the stalk.
