Are the little corns in Chinese food actually baby sweet corn or is it a different type of corn?

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• 1 sharkrox707 // Jun 16, 2008

  it is baby corn

• 2 zphtar // Jun 16, 2008

  Good question.

  "Baby corn is a vegetable taken from standard maize (corn) plants harvested early, while the ears are very small and immature. Baby corn is typically eaten whole, cob and all, in contrast to mature maize, whose cob is typically too hard for human consumption. It is consumed both raw and cooked. When cooked, its culinary and physical properties (from the point of the human palate) do not change significantly; texture remains relatively the same, as does taste, which is relatively bland either raw or cooked."

• 3 bebobz6 // Jun 16, 2008

  I think they are called gherkins..or something like that..not sure of spelling.