Polenta

Description

Polenta is coarsely ground previously germinated maize.

• Also available as grits and corn flakes
• Also see: corn flour

Application

Polenta is used in for example tortillas, puffed flavoured nibbles (a, for example, peanut doodles) and corn flakes.

Gene technology

Maize raw materials can partly consist of genetically modified plants.

• In some countries, generally modified maize is sown on comparatively small areas and primarily is used as feed and for the produktion of energy. In the case that GM maize assume greater significance in Europe, a range of foodstuffs may be affected.
• Moreover, the EU yearly imports about ten million tons of maize-derived raw material from the USA and Argentina, where GM maize is cultivated on a large-scale.

Labelling: Polenta from GM maize is subject to a labelling requirement.
Coincidental, technically unavoidable GMO admixtures in the maize raw materials up to a part of 0.9 per cent, and the food produced thereof, are not subject to a labelling requirement.