The corn or mais in Filipino words, is a popular food around the world. It is also a well known crops, even in the United States of America, since it serve as a food and a snack at the same time with them. This food is very common in our country, just to into any market, then you can see a corn.
There are lots of different corn color. There are some color purple, white, black and the most common, which is the yellow one. Those color has something to do with its taste and texture. The yellow one, taste sweet and the purple, white and black has almost the same texture and taste. Adding some sugar or salt can bring out its real flavor. You can directly eat a plain corn, without adding any flavor or anything, and I am sure that you are going to enjoy its taste.
The corn has many uses, not only as a snack, but it is also use as an ingredients in some recipe. It can be use in some sweet foods, like halo halo, its a food where all kind of small cut fruits, milk and crushed ice and jelly are mix together in a bowl. It can be use in mais con yelo, it is a corn with crushed ice and milk. Some people adds cheese in their corn, and its called corn cheese. You can also use mais as a dish, and it's called the SUAM, it is made of crushed corn and some meat as its flavor, then some bitter gourd leaves, this is a great tasting soup, and you should try it.