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What is a hominy?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Hominy is corn (maize) that has been dried then treated by soaking the grain in an alkali bath. The process make the finished product more nutritiously benficial by allowing the easier processing of protein and the addition of calcium (from the lime).

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