Thorwegian ❄️ on Nostr: npub1z3w0l…68qvr The Meso-Americans had to process corn quite heavily to use it as ...

npub1z3w0lndch3mrfr4w8rxmcg7xdm4zke34akysmd7psenp6jfnnv9sm68qvr (npub1z3w…8qvr) The Meso-Americans had to process corn quite heavily to use it as a crop. European settlers figured out how to grow corn easily enough, but they didn't know you had to process it to get enough nutrients from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

They suffered a lot of malnutrition before they figured that out.