Popcorn is a very popular snack for all ages. Kids like it and even adults love it. It's a snack but it supplies some nutrients and contrary to the belief of many, it's not a junk food.

This snack is from the same corn genus that is the sweet corn.

The name 'Popcorn' doesn't came from any other long-termed scientific names but it only describes the behavior of the kernels.

When the kernels are heated, the vapor builds up inside the kernel and it turns just inside out and loads up as a crunchy flavorsome snack.

Popcorn is an aged plant having been roughly since 3600 BCE. It is a well-liked snack food around the whole world but most of it is grown in the central Untied States.

Eating this snack is associated with having fun, bonding with family or friends and movie time or just a snack time.

Popcorn in fact takes longer to make because the kernels need to be hard before it is ready to be popped. However chilly fall weather and even early frosts will not hurt the hardening popcorn.

Trade of unpopped popcorn pick up in the fall and carry on through the winter. More often than not the popcorn should be planted in parallel short rows about 36 inches apart.

The popcorn seeds are planted one inch deep and six inches separately. Popcorn was recognized after it saved the movie industry. During the hopelessness era the movie houses began to fail.

A popcorn machine had been invented and was finally installed in the theater lobbies. Through the sales of snacks the movies houses made sufficient money to continue business without raising ticket prices.

The fancier theaters would not permit popcorn since it messed up the carpets. They afterward became unsuccessful. In 1896 a popcorn snack covered with caramel was marketed and became very trendy.