Eloise Trenda
Research Expert covering global food topics with a focus on the French, Spanish, and LATAM markets
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In 2020, corn tortillas and nixtamal-based dough sales in Mexico amounted to more than 59 billion Mexican pesos, over to five billion more than the year before. Tortillas are one of the most important ingredients accompanying Mexican cuisine. Used to prepare tacos, the most traditional kind of tortillas are prepared from a dough made by a grain called nixtamal. Nixtamal is the result of corn going through a process called nixtamalization and is used for the elaboration of other products such as tamales.
