Is Maizena Healthy? Here Is The Real Answers

Cornstarch has many benefits, including making corn syrup, sweeteners, soup thickeners, and even increasing oil absorption and crunchiness when frying chicken nuggets. In addition, corn flour can be processed into bioplastics. In fact, it can also be used on products made of latex such as condoms and medicalgloves. Corn flour is very suitable for those who want to start a healthy life and are on diet because it is gluten free and rich in nutrients such as iron, phosphorus, calcium and protein with low fat content.

Corn strach flour or corn starch is a food ingredient commonly consumed by the peopleo indonesia. Maizena flour contains 343 kilocalories of energy, 0.3 grams of protein, 85 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fat, 20 miligrams of calcium 30 miligrams of phosphorus, and 2 miligrams of iron. Apart from that, cornstarch also contains 30 IU of vitamin A, 20 miligrams of vitamin B1 and 28 miligrams of vitamin C. These results were obtained from conducting research on 100 grams of maizena flou, with an edible amount of 100%.

Maizena Nutritional Content

The content of this flour is very good for the health of the body because our bodies need balanced nutrition to increase our immunity. And cornstarch is corn starch which has a myriad a nutrients that are good for the body including minerals and vitamin, corn is also a food ingredient that plays an important role in the Indonesian economy, and is a staple food in several regions

The nutritional content of corn flour is better than wheat, even corn has the advantage because it contains functional foods such as dietary fiber, Fe elements, and beta-carotene (pro vitamin A) Richani & Suarni. 2006. The main component of corn starch is 70% of the wight seeds, other carbohydrate components are simple sugars namely glucose, sucrose and fructose, 1-3% of the weight of starch seeds consist of two types of glucose polymers namely amylose and amylopectin. Starch plays an important role in the food processing industry including candy, glucose, dextrose, fructose syrup and others.

The nutrional content of cornstarch per 100gr are:

• Calories = 355 cal
• Protein = 9,2 gr
• Fat = 3,9 gr
• Carbohydrates = 73,7 gr
• Calcium = 10 mg
• Phosphourus = 265 mg
• Ferrum = 2,4 mg
• Vitamin A = 1,2 mg
• Vitamin B1 = 2,4 mg
• Vitamin B12 = 1 mg
• Vitamin C = 2.3 mg

During this pandermic, it world be better for us to consume nutritious foods rich foods rich in fiber, minerals and vitamins so that our bodies have a strong immune. By having a strong immune, we will aviod diseases caused by viruses, bacteria and pathogens, we can process cornsrach in the right way make delicious and healthy food. In fact, it is not limited to making food, but cornstarch also has various benefits for skin and hair care.

Maizenaku

Maizenaku is the choice of corn flour with the number one quality which can be the best choice when you need quality food ingredients. Maizenaku has a thickening power 2x stronger than other brands, the color of the sauce is clearer and NON GMO (does not contain GMO)

• Brighter color
• Hygienic process
• Maintained quality
• Delicous taste
• Crispy texture