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Ancient Mesoamerican societies discovered a chemical process that turned maize into real human fuel.

Around 300 BCE, Mesoamerican societies developed a lime-based maize treatment that permanently changed human nutrition.
This process, now known as nixtamalization, used alkaline chemistry to unlock amino acids, release niacin, and make maize digestible enough to sustain entire civilizations.
Without this innovation, maize-based societies would have faced widespread nutrient deficiency.
This was not cooking — it was early food chemistry that reshaped human survival.

Keywords
ancient food engineering, maize processing, Mesoamerican civilization, ancient nutrition, food chemistry history, pre-Columbian technology

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