Corn lights up the fireworks show

Corn lights up the fireworks show
July 2nd, 2022 | RRN Staff

If it wasn’t for corn producers, fireworks would be much more… unsafe.

Fireworks need binders to burn properly. Corn is used in one of the most common binders called dextrin.

The U.S. uses a lot of dextrin because Americans spend over $1 billion on fireworks annually.

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