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What percentage of products on the supermarket shelves is estimated to contain a corn or soybean product? Were you surprised to find out how much of our food contains corn?

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Explanation:

Corn is also processed into a multitude of food and industrial products including starch, sweeteners, corn oil, beverage and industrial alcohol, and fuel ethanol. The United States is a major player in the world corn trade market, with between 10 and 20 percent of its corn crop exported to other countries.

The major feed grains are corn, sorghum, barley, and oats. Corn is the primary U.S. feed grain, accounting for more than 95 percent of total feed grain production and use.    

More than 90 million acres of land are planted to corn, with the majority of the crop grown in the Heartland region.

Most of the crop is used as the main energy ingredient in livestock feed.

Corn is also processed into a multitude of food and industrial products including starch, sweeteners, corn oil, beverage and industrial alcohol, and fuel ethanol.