Contrasting varieties of corn from Peru: purple corn for making popular chicha morada drink, white Mote, and orange grains used for flour or feed.

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Purple maize is used for making Chicha Morada a purple soft drink; the large white maize is boiled and served as Mote alongside favorite dishes such as Chicharron; the smaller orange grains are more similar in size to sweet corn kernels and could be chicken feed or ground into flour to make tamales.

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Keywords: corn, maiz, morada, mote, perla, peru, peruvian, purple, varieties