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ow much do you know about one of 3. The world’s first mobile popcorn 7. Long before the advent of the corn 12. In 1945, an engineer named Percy America's oldest and most beloved machine weighed 400 to 500 pounds flake, Ella Kellogg ate popcorn ground Spencer used popcorn in his efforts H and was often pulled by a… with milk or cream for breakfast. to develop the: snacks? Test your knowledge by taking our Popcorn Quiz. Pop up a fresh bowl a. Young boy a. True a. Television for inspiration. b. Large dog b. False b. Popcorn popper

c. Tractor c. Microwave oven Fear not! There are no grades to d. Circus elephant 8. There are six types of corn: d. Air freshener be made here. This is pure and simple a. Popcorn, sweet, dent, flint, pod entertainment although you might just 4. Popcorn explodes when …. b. Popcorn, sweet, ground, field, Indian, dent 13. Air-popped popcorn has how many learn something about one of America’s a. The water inside is superheated and turns c. Popcorn, sweet, dent, flint, flour, pod calories per cup? oldest snacks. Pop up a fresh bowl for the starch to a gelatinized goop d. Popcorn, sweet, field, ground, flint, pod a. 31 calories inspiration. b. The gelatinized goop reaches about b. 41 calories 347 !degrees 9. Popcorn kernels need HOW MUCH c. 51 calories 1. The average American eats how much moisture to pop? popcorn each year? c. The pressure inside the kernel reaches d. 61 calories about 135 pounds per square inch a. 10–12% water a. 51 cups d. All of the above b. 13.5–14% water 14. One of the earliest methods of b. 51 pints c. 18.5–20% water popping popcorn involved: c. 51 quarts 5. Popcorn grows on a stalk, which has d. 20% water a. Wrapping kernels in layers of animal fat d. 51 gallons several WHAT growing on it? and placing in a clay pot over an open flame 10. If you dry kernels of sweet corn, they b. Placing kernels in a covered pot in the 2. “Zea Mays Everta” is what? a. Eyes b. Ears will pop just like popcorn when!heated. hot sun to warm for several hours a. The motto (in Latin) of Popcorn c. Heads a. True c. Wrapping heated stones and kernels University meaning “Long Live Popcorn” d. Arms b. False together in an animal skin b. Popcorn’s scientific name d. Mixing unpopped kernels with extremely c. The name of the woman who discovered 6. How big are popcorn kernels after 11. Popcorn is a… hot sand popcorn they pop? a. Carbohydrate d. What Native Americans used to call a. 2–3 times the original size b. Fiber source 15. When a popcorn kernel is heated, the popcorn b. 10 times the original size c. Whole grain hard outer surface acts like WHAT c. 20 times the original size d. All of the above kitchen appliance? d. 35– 40 times the original size a. Pressure Cooker b. Blender c. Microwave d. Food Processor

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1. c (Americans eat 16 billion quarts per breakfast foods which are found in them in the microwaves, and watched The corn you see growing during the summer year, which comes out to approximately the !market.”*) them pop. The rest is history.) throughout the Midwest is probably field corn, 51 quarts per man, woman and child.) also know as dent corn. Millions of acres are 8. c (The three most common are dent/ 13. a (Popcorn is low in fat and calories, planted each year as compared to (roughly) 2. b field, sweet, and popcorn. Flint, also contains no artificial colors, 200,000 acres of popcorn and (roughly) 3. a known as Indian corn, and pod are preservatives or added sugar. Even oil 266,000 acres of sweet corn. All three types commonly used as decoration.) popped popcorn contains only 55 of corn have very specific uses. 4. d 9. b (Without this amount, popcorn will calories per cup.) 5. b not pop.) 14. d (Supposedly, this method is still used Acreage Comparison 6. d (On average, popped popcorn takes up 10. b (The hull of sweet corn is too soft and in India today. Surprisingly, the sand (Source: USDA, 2010 data) 37 times more room than unpopped would not withstand the pressure of doesn't stick to the popcorn. A little popcorn. If you covered the state of Diagram based on an average 800 kernels per ear being heated long enough to allow the shaking and it's ready to eat.) Oregon with a layer of kernels and then corn to pop.) 15. a (The popcorn kernel is tough enough popped them, it would cover the entire to withstand the exact amount of United States.) 11. d pressure needed for the water inside each 12. c (After WWII, Spencer was looking for 7. a (Ella and her husband, John Harvey kernel to heat, expand and gelatinize the ways to use microwave technology. He Sweet Corn Kellogg, both thought popcorn was an starch. At just the right moment, the hull supposedly had a chocolate candy bar in 266,000 “excellent” food and “easily digestible finally bursts open, the gelatinized his pocket which melted during his and to the highest degree wholesome, starch spills out and immediately cools experiments with microwaves. On a presenting the grain in its entirety, and into the familiar shape.) hence superior to many denatured hunch, he took popcorn kernels, placed Field Corn Popcorn * Ella E. Kellogg, Science in the Kitchen (Battle Creek, Mich.: Health Publishing Company, 1892), 104, 330; John Harvey Kellogg, The New Dietetics: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in 88,000,000 200,000 Health and Disease, rev. ed. (Battle Creek, Mich.: Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1927), 270.