Tag: corn disease

• Pellagra: The Corn Disease

  “Pellagra can be common in people who obtain most of their food energy from maize, notably rural South America, where maize is a staple food. If maize is not nixtamalized, it is a poor source of tryptophan, as well as niacin. Nixtamalization corrects the niacin deficiency, and is a common practice in Native American cultures…

  Adrienne Morris

  February 4, 2015

  Beautiful Images, United States History

  19th century epidemics, blogging, corn disease, disease control in US, food, Life, malnutrition in southern US, niacin deficiency, pellagra