Dent corn

A type of dried corn also called field corn that is recognizable by the indentation (dent) on the kernel of the corn. Dent corn has much lower sugar content than our eating sweet corn. Dent corn comes in white, yellow, blue, and red. Dent corn is ground and used to make cornmeal and it can also be slaked with lime (cal) and used to make hominy (pozole) or masa flour for making tamales and tortillas.Learn how to make masa >>

Most dried corn types can be used interchangeably when making flour for corn tortillas.