{"id":131,"date":"2012-08-21T04:56:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T04:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2020-04-09T05:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:25:53","slug":"corn-fungus-smut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/corn-fungus-smut\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Fungus, Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_132\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/corn-fungus-smut.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132\" title=\"corn-fungus-smut\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/corn-fungus-smut.jpg\" alt=\"Corn Fungus or Corn smut\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corn Fungus a.k.a. Corn smut<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Corn Fungus or Corn smut is a food that looks worthy of a haunted house as it looks very much like grey-colored brains. It is actually a plant fungus that infects corn and that is used in Mexico and Latin America as a filling for quesadillas. Some say it has an earthy, strong, mushroom-like flavor with a slight hint of raw corn \u2014 it&#8217;s a popular ingredient in soups and quesadillas. However strange this dish may seem, many promote it as a healthy dish due to the nutritional value provided within including protein and minerals including Llysine .<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn Fungus or Corn smut is a food that looks worthy of a haunted house as it looks very much like grey-colored brains. It is actually a plant fungus that infects corn and that is used in Mexico and Latin America as a filling for quesadillas. Some say it has an earthy, strong, mushroom-like flavor [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[41,102,103,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}