earliest evidence of nixtamalization is found in Guatemala's southern coast, with equipment dating from 1200 to 1500 BC. How nixtamalization was discovered...

nextli. In a process called nixtamalization, maize is cooked with nextli to become nixtamal, also known as hominy. Nixtamalization significantly increases...

called nixtamalization (nextamalli is the Nahuatl word for "hominy"). "Lye hominy" is a type of hominy made with lye. The process of nixtamalization has...

soaked in an alkaline solution, e.g., limewater (a process known as nixtamalization), it is called masa harina (or masa flour), which is used for making...

throughout Mesoamerica; they cooked, ground and processed it through nixtamalization. By 3000 years ago, maize was central to Olmec culture, including their...

(maize) prepared it by nixtamalization, in which the grain is treated with a solution of alkali such as lime. Nixtamalization makes the niacin nutritionally...

that the corn in a tortilla chip has undergone a process known as nixtamalization, which involves processing the raw corn with quicklime. Food portal...

thoroughly to remove the unpalatable flavor of the alkali. This process is nixtamalization, and it produces hominy, which is ground into a relatively dry dough...

the similar tortilla chips, which are made from cornmeal and use the nixtamalization process (known as masa). It is one of two brands representing Frito-Lay...

treated with alkali to improve their nutrition in a process called nixtamalization. A simple dough made of ground hominy, salt and water is then formed...

elements from wood ash. Wood ash is sometimes used in the process of nixtamalization, where certain types of corn (typically maize or sorghum) is soaked...

dried maize Flour Starch Gluten Masa harina, a corn flour from the nixtamalization of maize Cornflower, a small annual flowering plant with blue flowers...

techniques used today are inherited from pre-Columbian peoples, such as the nixtamalization of corn, the cooking of food in ovens at ground level, grinding in...

both made from corn, the corn in tortilla chips is subjected to the nixtamalization process, resulting in a milder flavor and aroma, and a less rigid texture...

substitute for soap. Lye made out of wood ashes is also used in the nixtamalization process of hominy corn by the tribes of the Eastern Woodlands in North...

being maize that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization, with the pericarp (ovary wall) removed. Grits are cooked in warm salted...

alkaline salt to make hominy, in a Native American technology known as nixtamalization. Cornbread was popular during the American Civil War because it was...

alkali salts (from the lime or ash)—this is an ancient process called nixtamalization. This creates a fresh, wet hominy, which can be dried for later use...

It is found in malt and produced by the Maillard reaction and by nixtamalization. It contributes to the flavor of corn tortillas, popcorn, and beer...

Sascab: a building and paving material (Central America) Soda–lime glass Nixtamalization: a food processing method (Mexico) "Lime in Handbook of Mineralogy"...

Olmec and Maya who domesticated maize, created the standard process of nixtamalization, and established their foodways. Successive waves of other Mesoamerican...

made alkaline by the addition of ashes or lime, a process known as nixtamalization. It was also a staple food for Native American hunting parties and...

soaked in an alkaline solution, e.g., limewater (a process known as nixtamalization), it is called masa harina (or masa flour), which is used for making...

Americans of converting maize kernels into hominy in a process called Nixtamalization. The agriculture gender roles of the Native Americans varied from region...

the original on February 24, 2005. Retrieved 2009-02-27. See also: nixtamalization "Diana snacks, El Salvador, Elotitos". Retrieved 2011-04-23. Escudero...

result, the word means "little cake" in Spanish. Tortillas made from nixtamalized maize meal—masa de maíz— are the oldest variety of tortilla. They originated...

The cooking of maize grains in alkaline solutions, a process called nixtamalization, significantly raised the nutritional value of the common staple. Water...

extended family and neighbors to partake. A nacatamal is made up of mostly nixtamalized corn masa (a kind of dough traditionally made from a process called nizquezar)...

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to be cooked further. These processes include drying, milling, and nixtamalization. Cornmeal – Meal (coarse flour) ground from dried corn Corn oil – Oil...