While the husks disguise what’s hiding inside, it was always an exciting surprise to discover the color of the kernels: almost always yellow, white, or a mix of the two (aka bicolor).

Mix the cornmeal, flour, baking powder ... Place cooked fish on bread and drizzle with yellow mustard. Top with onion and pickle slices.

Yellow and white are the most common varieties, however, corn plants can also produce kernels in shades of red, blue, purple, and even black,” Hanyzewski says.

Whisk in the cornmeal, flour, vanilla, lemon zest, lemon juice, and a few drops of yellow food coloring, if you like. Carefully pour the filling into the crust.

In this study the bright greenish-yellow fluorescence test, widely used by the corn milling industry, was compared to the thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and spectrofluorimetry methods for aflatoxin ...