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GFMM desk: TRUE color meet the ever-increasing demands of the Indonesian seed industry. With the cleanest quality becoming a major requirement, the modest yet inexorable trend towards color sorting can be clearly seen when monitoring the market over time.
They very much welcome this development, as it means that color sorters become standard equipment in seed processing lines. For this special sweet corn application in Indonesia, a SEA TRUE 3 T+T has been selected. Its job – in addition to the separation of standard impurities – is removal of ‘field corn’ and discolored seed kernels that have lower germination rates.
Sweet corn is a hybridized variety of maize with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel. Unlike field corn varieties, which are harvested when the kernels are dry and mature (dent stage), sweet corn is picked when immature (milk stage) and prepared and eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain. Since the process of maturation involves converting sugar to starch, sweet corn stores poorly and must be eaten fresh, canned, or frozen, before the kernels become tough and starchy. It is one of the six major types of corn, the others being dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, and flour corn.
Source: Online/SZK
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