Baby corn, immature corn-cob yet fertilized, has become important for the canning in Brazil, because it is specially pleasant and low-calories. This research proposed to evaluate the quality of canned baby corn from four cultivars; determine the nutritional compositions of these cultivars; and determine the baby corn yield for canning. The acidification procedures used in processing resulted in a product safe for consumption. The tasters preferred the canned baby corn with highest acidity, which had an estimated pH 3.9 for stabilization, instead of 4.2 and canned with 4.0% brine. The canned of the cv. DKB 214, P 3021, AG 6018 and DKB 215 were considered equally palatable by the tasters. The nutritional compositions of the four cultivars were similar and these were low-calories because they had law-concentration in both the carbohydrate and the protein, and the lipid was insignificant (lower than 0.30%). Thus, considering the yield in baby corn for the canned, the cv. P 3021 was recommended, because it had a yield of 25.90% higher than the cv AG 6018, which had the lower.
Zea mays; baby corn canned; agroindustry; functional food; nutritional composition
