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Which maize flatbread comes from Venezuela and Colombia?
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Which Mexican dish is maize dough steamed in a husk?
Answer: Tamale
Why: The Aztecs and Maya used tamales as portable food, packing them for hunting trips, long journeys and their armies.
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Which people's word became 'maize'?
Answer: The Taíno
Why: Spanish turned the Taíno word mahís into maíz, and English borrowed maize from Spanish in the 1500s.
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Which book says the gods shaped the first people from maize?
Answer: Popol Vuh
Why: The Popol Vuh says the first people's flesh was shaped from a dough of yellow and white maize.
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Which plant family does maize belong to?
Answer: Grasses
Why: Unlike wheat and rice, maize uses C4 photosynthesis, which concentrates carbon dioxide inside its leaves.
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About how many years ago was maize domesticated?
Answer: About 9,000
Why: Maize starch on grinding stones from a rock shelter in Mexico's Balsas valley shows people using the crop about 8,700 years ago.
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What is maize cooked in before it is ground for tortillas?
Answer: Limewater
Why: Limewater frees the niacin locked in raw maize, which is why nixtamalised maize protects against pellagra.
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