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Blue corn tortillas have health benefits

BlueCornTortillasIt's been known for quite some time that blueberries are high in antioxidants. Recently I learned that another blue food is also high in these healthful compounds: blue corn tortillas. Not only that, the pale blue-gray discs also have more protein and less starch than their white-corn cousins. All of this comes as very good news for me, considering I usually eat things like pork fried in lard betwixt my tortillas. Now all I need to do is convince some local taquerias to start offering blue tortillas.

Mexican and Venezuelan researchers recently published their findings on blue corn tortillas in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. Since blue corn is so high in antioxidants, the scientists believe consuming it may help to fight colon cancer and other diseases. The high levels of antioxidants in blue corn result from pigments called anthocyanins. What I'd like to know is whether these guys did any research on the inky purple Peruvian beverage chicha morada made from, you guessed it, blue corn.

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Tags: anthocyanins, antioxidants, blue corn, blue corn tortillas, BlueCorn, BlueCornTortillas, chicha morada, ChichaMorada, grains, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, JournalOfTheScienceOfFoodAndAgriculture, south america, tortilla, tortillas

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