Uses of Corn (from Texas Farm Bureau site)
Dextrose (Food, Drug Uses)
| Antibiotics | Baby Foods | Bakery products (biscuits, bread, crackers, fillings, icing, macaroons, pretzels, cookies, crackers, wafers, etc.) | Berries, canned and frozen | Beverages, brewed (beer, ale, etc.) |
| Beverages, carbonated | Breakfast foods | Caramel color | Cheese foods and spreads | Chewing gum |
| Chocolate products | Citric acid | Citrus juices | Coloring, pure food mix | Condensed milk |
| Confectionery | Cordials, liqueurs and brandy | Cream, frozen | Dairy products | Desserts |
| Dietetic preparations | Distillation products | Doughnuts (cake, yeast) | Drugs (fermentation process) | Eggs, frozen or dried |
| Fish, pickled | Flavoring extracts | Food acids (citric, etc.) | Fruit juices | Fruits and vegetables (canned) |
| Gelatin desserts | Ice cream, water ices and sherbets | Infant and invalid feeding | Jams, jellies, marmalades and preserves | Lactic Acid |
| Meat products (bacon, bologna, hams, sausage, frankfurters, mincemeat) | Medicinal preparations & intravenous (injections, pills, tablets, drugs, etc.) | Mixes, prepared (cake, icings and frostings, infant foods, pie fillings, toppings, etc.) | Peanut butter | Peas, canned |
| Pickles and pickle products | Prepared mixes | Powders (ice cream, prepared dessert, pudding, summer drinks, powders, etc.) | Sauces (catsup, tomato, etc.) | Seasoning mixes, dry |
| Sorbitol (in candies, toothpaste, etc.) | Soups, dehydrated | Spices and mustard preparations | Syrups (table, fomtain, medicinal, etc.) | Vinegar |
| Wine | Xanthan Gums | Yeast |
Dextrins (Industrial Uses)
| Adhesives (glues, pastes, mucilages, gums) | Bookbinding | Briquettes | Candles | Ceramics |
| Cord polishing | Core binder (castings, molds, etc.) | Cork products | Crayon and chalk (as a binder) | Dyes (dry, cake, etc.) |
| Envelopes | Fireworks | Inks, printing | Insecticides | Insulation, fiberglass |
| Labels | Leather | Linoleum | Magazines | Matches (on head and side of box) |
| Oil-well drilling | Ore-separation | Paints (cold-water, poster, etc.) | Paper and paper products | Plastics (molding) |
| Plywood | Sandpaper | Shoes (counter pastes, polish, etc.) | Silvering compounds | Soaps |
| Straws (drinking) | Textiles, sizing, finishing and printing | Twine (cord, string, etc.) | Wallboard and wallpaper | Window shades and shade cloth |
Cornstarch (Food, Drug and Cosmetic Uses)
| Antibiotics | Aspirin | Baby Foods | Bakery products (breads, rolls, cakes, pies, crackers and cookies) | Baking powder |
| Beverages, brewed (beer, ale, etc.) | Chewing gum | Chocolate drink | Confectionery | Cosmetics |
| Desserts (puddings, custards, etc.) | Drugs and pharmaceuticals | Flours, prepared (including prepared mixes) | Food and drug coatings | Gravies and sauces |
| Meat products | Mixes, prepared (pancake, waffle, cake, candy, etc.) | Mustard, prepared | Pie filling | Precooked frozen meals |
| Salad dressing | Soaps and cleaners | Soups | Sugar, powdered | Vegetables, canned |
Corn Oil, Refined (Food, Drug Uses)
| Carriers for vitamins and other medicinal preparations in capsule form | Cooking Oil | Margarine | Mayonnaise | Potato chips |
| Salad dressing | Sauces, seasonings | Shortening | Soups |
Corn Syrup (Industrial Uses)
| Adhesives (plasticizing agent) | Chemicals | Dyes and inks | Explosives | Leather tanning (chrome process) |
| Metal plating | Paper, glassine and parchment | Plasticizer | Polish, shoe | Rayon (Viscose process) |
| Textiles, for finishing | Theatrical make-up | Tobacco and tobacco products |
High Fructose Corn Syrup (Food Uses)
| Bakery products | Canned fruits | Canned juices | Condiments | Confectionery products |
| Frozen desserts | Jams, jellies and preserves | Soft drinks | Wine | Yeast |
Cornstarch (Industrial Uses)
| Abrasive paper and cloth | Adhesives (glues, mucilages, gums, etc.) | Batteries, dry cell | Binder or binding agents | Board (corrugating, laminating, solid fiberboard, cardboard) |
| Boiler compounds | Bookbinding | Briquettes | Ceramics (as clay binder) | Chemicals |
| Cleaners, detergents | Coatings on wood, metal and paper | Color carrier (in paper and textile printing) | Cord polishing, sizing | Cork products |
| Crayon and chalk (as a binder) | Dispersing and standardizing agent | Dressing, surgical | Dyes (as a bodying agent, carrier diluent, etc.) | Fermentation processes |
| Fiberglass size | Fireworks | Insecticide powders | Insulating material (glass, wool, rock wool, etc.) | Lubricating agents |
| Oilcloth | Oil-well drilling (drilling mud) | Ore refining (electrolytic reduction process, flotation process, etc.) | Paints (cleaning compounds, cold water and latex paints, poster, laquers, etc.) | Paper and paper products manufacture |
| Photographic films (antihalation powder) | Plastics (molded) | Plywood (interior) | Printing | Protective colloids (emulsions) |
| Textiles (warp sizing and finishing) | Tile, ceiling | Tires, rubber | Wallboard and wallpaper | Water recovery, industrial |
Corn Syrup (Food, Drug Uses) Liquid or Dried Form
| Baby foods | Bakery products (bread, rolls, biscuits, doughnuts, pies, cakes, cookies, pretzels, etc.) | Beverages, brewed (beer, ale, etc.) | Beverages, carbonated | Breakfast foods |
| Catsup, chili sauce, tomato sauce | Cereals, prepared | Cheese spreads and foods | Chewing gum | Chocolate products |
| Coffee whiteners | Condensed milk, sweetened | Confectionery | Cordials and liqueurs | Desserts |
| Eggs, frozen or dried | Extracts and flavors | Frostings and icings | Fruit butters and juices | Fruit drinks |
| Fruits (canned, candied, fillings, frozen, etc.) | Ice cream, water ices and sherbets | Jams, jellies, marmalades and preserves | Licorice | Malted products |
| Marshmallows and related products | Meat products (sausage, etc.) | Medicinal preparations (drugs, pharmaceuticals) | Mixes, prepared (cakes, infant foods, pie fillings, pudding powders, ice cream, etc.) | Peanut butter |
| Pickles and pickle products | Rice and coffee polish | Salad dressing | Sauces (seasoning, specialty, etc.) | Seafood, frozen |
| Soups, dehydrated | Syrups (table, chocolate, cocoa, fruit, medicinal, soda fountain, cordials, etc.) | Toppings |
Produced
by the TFB Research and Education Department, Phone (254) 751-2257
Sources: National Corn Growers Association; United States Department of
Agriculture