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ReviewFood science & nutrition2026

Dry-Milled Corn and Corn Products and Health: A Narrative Review.

Mark Kern, Shirin Hooshmand

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Review in Food science & nutrition, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mark KernSchool of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences San Diego State University San Diego California USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0497-5967
Shirin HooshmandSchool of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences San Diego State University San Diego California USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Corn (maize) is commonly consumed after dry-milling. Common products include whole or refined grits, cornmeal, corn flour, and more that can produce foods including polenta, tortillas, and tortilla chips, corn chips, breakfast cereals, and more. Processing can also include nixtamalization, which introduces alkali to the product. Whole grain products tend to be richer in nutrients that are lost when the bran and germ are removed to produce refined products. Epidemiological research supports the consumption of whole dry-milled corn products. Limited clinical trials tend to report positive results for whole grain products and mixed results for refined products. Critical needs exist for long-term dose-response studies of both whole and refined foods. Dry-milled products should be studied for potential impacts on macular health via zeaxanthin. The potential values that dry-milled corn products such as corn and tortilla chips, as well as breakfast cereal, as carriers for healthful foods should be explored.

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corndry‐milledhealthmaizenutrients

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PMID41695107
PMCPMC12902881

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