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Food & Dairy / List of ingredients | | English term or phrase: (corn) | | Er der nogen, der kan fortælle, hvordan man ved, hvad (corn) betyder, når der står "malt dextrin (corn)" - er det en advarsel om, at der er hvede i - eller er det netop det modsatte?? |
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1 min confidence:   Majs
Explanation:
Corn betyder bare majs, altså er det et ekstrakt eller noget lavet på majs.
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Note added at 28 mins (2008-10-23 08:20:13 GMT)
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1. Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
2. the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder.
3. the ears of this plant.
4. the edible seed of certain other cereal plants, esp. wheat in England and oats in Scotland.
5. the plants themselves.
6. sweet corn.
7. corn whiskey.
8. Skiing. corn snow.
9. Informal. old-fashioned, trite, or mawkishly sentimental material, as a joke, a story, or music.
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| Jonne
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Local time: 19:22
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Native speaker of:  Danish
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Asker: Corn kan også betyde korn... På amerikansk betyder det majs, men jeg kan ikke afgøre om teksten er amerikansk...
Asker: Tak for jeres svar. Jeg må vist kontakte kunden, så de kan give mig et svar. Der er jo meget, der står på spil.
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23 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 (korn)
Explanation:
Korn - sandsynligvis byg eller hvede
Malt is usually made from barley, but can also be made from wheat.
CORN, in the Concise Oxford, is:
corn 1
· n.
1 chiefly Brit. the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats. Ø informal the grain of any cereal, especially as fed to livestock. Ø N. Amer. & Austral./NZ maize.
2 ...
– ORIGIN OE, of Gmc origin.
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MALT, same dictionary:
malt · n.
1 barley or other grain that has been steeped, germinated, and dried, used especially for brewing or distilling and vinegar-making.
2 chiefly Brit. short for malt whisky.
3 N. Amer. short for malted milk.
· v.
1 convert (grain) into malt.
2 (of a seed) become malt when germination is checked by drought.
– DERIVATIVES maltiness n. malty adj.
– ORIGIN OE m(e)alt, of Gmc origin; rel. to melt.
Other, more food-oriented hard-copy dictionaries say the same in more or less detail.
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Note added at 29 mins (2008-10-23 08:21:39 GMT)
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I see that maize malt does exist, but where it is not specifically declared, I would assume the malt came from barley, wheat, or possibly oats.
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Note added at 39 mins (2008-10-23 08:30:59 GMT)
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Malt dextrin is possibly not important to allergy sufferers - it depends how pure it is, and what other traces go with it.
Dextrin = soluble compound formed by the partial breakdown of starch by heat, acids or enzymes (amylases). Formed when bread is toasted and nutritionally equivalent to starch
see also:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/dextrin
|   Christine Andersen
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
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Asker: Tak for jeres svar. Jeg må vist kontakte kunden, så de kan give mig et svar. Der er jo meget, der står på spil.
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