Some Paleo gurus will say “NO” in big bold letters… and some will say, “it’s alright to eat popcorn”, but aren’t too convinced themselves…
My take is that if you understand what a Paleo Diet is, then you will understand which popcorn is Paleo friendly and which popcorn is not…
This is probably the hardest concept for people to understand about food… not all food is created equal…
The reason why people stay away from corn and call it “not Paleo” is because modern day corn is not like ancient corn that our ancestors ate… understanding this difference is what the Paleo Diet is all about…
Paleo Friendly Popcorn
If you like popcorn and want to include it in your diet, then all you have to do is seek out heirloom popcorn…
Heirloom popcorn is made with corn varieties that have not been genetically modified… you will quickly notice a difference in the way they look, the size, the texture and most importantly, the taste!
Heirloom popcorn is so much better than modern day popcorn…
You won’t find this type of corn at your local grocery store… movie theater popcorn is definitely not heirloom…
What’s so bad about modern day popcorn?
Think about this for a second… corn grows from a seed… the seed has all the information needed to grow into a plant…
That information is stored in the seed much like code is stored in your smartphone or computer… the seed is the hardware and the code is the software…
Heirloom corn has DNA code that’s a natural code… it is code designed by our creator… and it is perfect… you cannot improve upon perfect…
Modern day corn has altered this genetic code… any alterations are by default less than perfect, but sold to us as “an upgrade”… and here’s how they did it…
When planting corn, weeds can grow around crops and it can be tedious hard work to keep them out… so they figured out that glyphosate can “hack” the genetic code of plants and keep them from producing aromatic amino acids like phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine… these are key amino acids that are needed for life… tyrosine is especially important for thyroid hormone production…
If you can block the production of these amino acids in plants, you kill the plant…
The intent (at least what they say) was to kill the weeds only… but the problem is that spraying glyphosate kills all plants that come in contact with it…
So they designed a patented corn seed that would create these amino acids in the presence of glyphosate… that’s why they called it glyphosate ready seed… the fact that the seed is patented tells you that is not natural… you can not patent natural seeds…
That’s what we define as modern day corn… modern day corn has broken information… its code has been altered… it is no longer fertile seed…
Our ancestors did not eat corn that had it’s genetic code modified… that’s why modern day popcorn is not Paleo…
That’s what makes popcorn made with Heirloom corn Paleo friendly… it is made with corn that is fertile… it is one of the best snacks for a Paleo Diet…
Popcorn isn’t the only food that has been ruined this way… Bananas are considered to be Paleo friendly by many, but not us… we only consider bananas Paleo Friendly if they are seeded, which means they are fertile…
That is what makes the Paleo Diet work… this key difference is what the Paleo Diet is all about…
