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Popcorn, popbeans ... what next?

mistercross
19 years ago

If you're not familiar with popbeans, they are discussed in Carol Deppe's book and there are a couple of posts in the Heirloom Forum. I started wondering if other grains could be popped. The following are all layman-level descriptions.

First, here's why popcorn pops:

Iowa State Popcorn

Also try this description which says rice doesn't pop:

Indiana U Popcorn

But this page describes how grains are made to pop (or puff) for breakfast cereals:

HowStuffWorks Rice Krispies

Finally, I didn't know that coffee beans were popped as part of the roasting process:

HowStuffWorks Coffee Roasting

I bet breeding would improve the popping performance of different grains. Do you think it's worth doing?

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