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Article: Pizza topping helps U.S. sweet corn exports.
- Article from:
- AgExporter
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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"Hello, I would like to order a large cheese pizza with onions, mushrooms and green peppers. Oh, I almost forgot the main topping - a double helping of corn.
Most people assume that U.S. corn exports to other countries end up primarily as a side dish. While rarely thought of as a topping here in the United States, the popularity of corn as a pizza toppings has helped make Japan and fellow Asian countries the leading importers of sweet corn in the world.
Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. exports of sweet corn goes to Asia, with Japan by far the largest customer. In 1993, it purchased $78 million worth of processed sweet corn, a 20-percent increase from the ...