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Originally Posted by al shabbray

looks like albino corn

it's corn processed with an alkali to remove the husk and make the vitamins more absorbable.

a genius discovery of american indians-- while italian polenta eaters died of vitamin b deficiency (pelagra) in the XIX century, mexicans were fine eating tortillas 3 times a day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization