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Yellow Popcorn, 45 lbs.

This product is no longer available from our supplier. We're working on finding a new source, and in the meantime we're unable to take backorders. We're sorry for the inconvenience!

We do offer organic yellow popcorn here, however.

This conventional/non-organic yellow "butterfly" popcorn grain is triple-cleaned and perfect for popping and baking purposes, including grinding for corn meal or corn flour.

Convenient & safe storage

Our popcorn comes in six-gallon buckets (or pails... another word for the same container). Net weight is 45 lbs. for the conventional yellow popcorn. When you store popcorn at home, it needs to be protected in a couple of ways. First, it needs to be protected from a variety of little critters who'd like to get to it before you do. Weevils and rodents, for example. You also need to protect your popcorn from picking up excessive additional moisture, which can be drawn from the atmosphere. The buckets our popcorn comes in provide full protection against these storage risks. They have airtight gasket-sealed lids, Mylar liners, and oxygen absorber packets that remove the oxygen from the air in the bucket after we put the lid on. The O2 absorbers leave an atmosphere of nitrogen in the bucket, because air consists almost entirely of oxygen and nitrogen. (The oxygen absorber packets themselves are completely food-safe, being made of powdered iron and salt, which are kept separate from the product itself.) Our buckets safely lock out pests, and biological processes are put "on hold" in the Mylar protected, oxygen-free nitrogen atmosphere, so your popcorn enjoys complete peace and quiet until you want to use it.

Beat oxidation

In whole-grain foods, the plant's cellular walls protect nutrients from oxidation. The process of oxidation begins to occur as soon as grain is ground, exposing the cell's contents to oxygen in the air. Flour that is several days (or more) old, has been exposed to oxygen that inevitably diminishes its nutritional value. The way to get full nutrition from whole grain foods is to mill them when you need them, right in your kitchen. Modern high-speed grain mills make it fast and easy to enjoy the freshest, best tasting and most nutritious food imaginable!

Super-cleaned

All of our popcorn is triple-cleaned to ensure purity and protect your grain mill from any foreign objects. (Popcorn that isn't sufficiently cleaned may contain small stones that will damage or destroy a grain mill... not to mention that you don't want such things in your food!)

Non-GMO

All of Pleasant Hill Grain's whole grain products are natural (non-GMO).

History & Uses

Popcorn ( zea mays everta) is a good source of fiber, has few calories, and contains no saturated fats. Yellow popcorn has more fiber, less starch and fewer carbohydrates than white popcorn has. Carotene gives this grain its yellow color and is a good source of vitamin A. Popped yellow popcorn is larger and sturdier than popped white popcorn, and for these reasons theaters typically pop yellow popcorn. All popcorn is gluten-free.

Native American tribes enjoyed popcorn and used it for decorating headdresses, corsages, making spiced and herbal snacks, beer, and even soup! Christopher Columbus allegedly brought popcorn to Europe in the late 15th century, and it wasn't until 1912 that movie theaters adopted the snack.

Although movie theaters and pre-packaged microwaveable popcorn has given the grain an unhealthy reputation, homemade popcorn can be quite healthful, and healthful doesn’t mean bland. Popcorn can be delicious when seasoned and customized to your liking. Each one cup serving containing 1 gram each of fiber and protein, 6 grams of carbohydrates, only 31 calories, and just a trace of fat. If lightly seasoned with a dash of salt, chili powder, or garlic powder, it becomes a healthful, satisfying snack.

Popcorn is grown similarly to other corn. It isn’t harvested until the kernels are hard and dry. When popcorn is ready for harvesting the hydration is at 16-20%. Once harvested, kernels are allowed to dry for around nine months, until the hydration is down to 14%, which is ideal popping. The United States is the top producer of popcorn worldwide, and most of it is grown in the Midwestern "corn belt," which stretches from Nebraska and Kansas east to Ohio to Kentucky.

Popcorn has a hard hull that encases the internal moisture, and when popcorn kernels are heated the moisture inside releases, creating a ‘pop!’ as the kernel expands. Because the hull is so hard, stone burr grain mills are unable to grind popcorn, but steel burr and impact burr grain mills will grind popcorn to any texture from cracked grain, to meal, to fine flour.

Have you seen popcorn garland wrapped around a Christmas tree? It’s a charming old-fashioned way to decorate for the holiday. You can make this decoration at home by air popping yellow or white popcorn, letting the popped corn sit for a day or two (so it becomes less fragile), and using a sewing needle with white thread to string the popcorn into a garland!

Some popcorn is marketed as “hulless”, implying that when popped it wouldn’t have the dark, hard kernel inside. Unfortunately, there’s really no such thing as hulless popcorn, and this is just a marketing ploy. The hull of popcorn makes up the outer part of the kernel and without it kernels couldn’t pop.

Popcorn makes a tasty, inexpensive, healthful, whole-grain snack when popped on the stovetop or in an air popper. After sprinkling on a bit of sea salt, and maybe paprika too, try squeezing fresh lime juice over your snack, or tossing it with fresh dill and chives!

Additional Options 

Pleasant Hill Grain offers over thirty kinds of whole grain products

Our food category offers many selections of baking ingredients, delicious dried fruits and vegetables, long-term storable foods, canned meat, fish and poultry, sweeteners and more. 

As a whole grains shopper you may also be interested in hand crank and electric grain mills and grain flakers as well as heavy duty Bosch mixersAnkarsrum (formerly Electrolux)Haussler spiral dough mixers, and Famag spiral dough mixers

Gamma Seal Lids are remarkably practical two-part gadgets that transform standard plastic buckets into rugged, gasketed, resealable storage containers that are both air-tight and water-tight.

Shipping Zones 

Please note: The shipping zones below are for the 48 contiguous states. For shipment to AK/HI, please call (866) 467-6123 or email us for a cost quote.

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In addition to the non-organic yellow popcorn shown on this page, we also offer organic yellow popcorn.

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Ingredients

Yellow popcorn.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 oz. (28g)
Servings Per Container: 720
Amount per serving
Calories 105
Calories from Fat 11
  % Daily
Total Fat 1g 2%
Saturated Fat 0g 1%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 2mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 21g 7%
Fiber 4g 14%
Sugars 0g
Protein 3g
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0%
Iron 5%

Specs

Diameter
13.4"
Height
17.6"
Weight (lbs.)
48.4
Net Weight (lbs.)
45
Gluten Free
Yes
GMO Free
Yes
Origin
USA
Country of Manufacture
United States

Shipping

We stock this product in our Nebraska warehouse. Most of our shipments are by FedEx Ground or Home Delivery and you should receive your order in five business days or less from ship-out. Click here for more information about shipping.

Accessories for this product:

Grain Sample 1 Pound

Our one pound grain, bean and seed samples are a way for you to give a grain a try before investing in a bulk amount. These samples are not packaged for longterm storage.

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Bucket Lid Wrench

Don't be afraid of the plastic construction of this handy lid removal tool. We've used them for years here at PHG. They work great and we've never had one break.

Overall length of the tool is 8.25".

Note: Some bucket lids have several points around their lower lip that must be snipped with a cutting tool prior to removal. No matter what sort of tool you use to pry the lid off, if you're working with that sort of lid then it is indeed necessary to snip the lid at those points, first. Such "snip points" vary in appearance and may or may not be marked with words like "Cut Here" or with a scissors symbol. Another type of lid has a circumferential "tear strip" around its bottom edge. With such lids you may not need a lid removal wrench to use after pulling the tear-strip away, but one can be helpful to those with hand weakness due to arthritis or other reasons.

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RealSalt Popcorn Salt, 10 oz. Pouch

Snack fans and movie lovers will find Redmond's unrefined 10 oz. RealSalt Popcorn Salt the perfect addition to their hot, fresh popcorn. With 60+ trace minerals, Real Salt’s Popcorn Salt also supports proper nutrition.

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Nordic Ware Scottish Scone/Cornbread

For full-sized scones, biscuits and hearty corn bread. Makes eight wedges.

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Lékué Popcorn Popper

Pop your own popcorn in the microwave using the Lékué popcorn maker! It's as easy as pouring up to 1/3 cup unpopped popcorn kernels into the silicone bowl, placing the clear suction lid onto the bowl, and microwaving for 2-3 minutes. With the Lékué popcorn popper you'll have a easy and healthful snack in just minutes!

The Lékué popcorn popper doubles as a serving bowl and can hold 10 cups popped popcorn.

Cleanup of the Lékué popcorn maker is fast and easy and it collapses for compact storage.

To purchase organic or conventional. GMO-free popcorn grain, click here

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Gamma Seal Lid, 12 Inch, Set of 3

This remarkably practical two-part gadget transforms a standard plastic bucket into a rugged, gasketed, resealable storage container that's both air-tight. Just snap the outer ring down onto your bucket. The threaded lid turns easily with molded-in grip bars. These lids are heavy duty for years and years of service. The ring has a polymer gasket where it sits against the lid of your bucket, and the threaded lid has another polymer gasket, giving the container an air-tight seal that excludes not only such freeloaders as mice and insects, but moisture too.

The Gamma Seal lid transforms an ordinary bucket into the ideal storage vault for an endless list of materials from grain and other foods to laundry products, pet food, tools, documents, silk ties, lawn and garden products, bait, seeds, oil, disaster supplies... and on and on. They also make lightweight, super-strong totes for camping gear. And did we mention that they're stackable? Our customers come back for more of these. (Make your life easier by ordering a few more the first time!)

All Gamma Lid plastics are food safe, including "heavy-metal-free" pigment in the colored lids, and all Gamma products are BPA-free. Gamma Seal lids do not include the bucket. Please note that color tint of plastic buckets can vary, so Gamma Lid colors may not perfectly match with the color of any given plastic buckets.

These 12" Gamma Seal lids fit 3-1/2 gallon or 5 gallon or 6 gallon buckets with standard top outside diameter of 11-3/4" to 12-1/8". If you want to use Gamma Seal Lids on buckets you already have, be sure your bucket tops have an outside diameter that falls within that range. (The buckets offered by Pleasant Hill Grain all have the proper top diameters to accept their respective size of Gamma Seal Lid.)

To install we recommend a large rubber mallet, or lay a 2x4 across the lid and strike with any heavy hammer. If a lid ring doesn't want to start on a bucket easily, submerging the ring or bucket rim (or both) in hot water will ease the connection.

Lids are sold in sets of three of each color. Colors include white, black, green, yellow, red, blue, and orange.

Note: If using oxygen absorbers in plastic buckets, you need to use standard hammer-on lids (not Gamma Lids). Gamma Lids are airtight, but are not designed to counteract the force of pressure that's created when all of the oxygen in the container is removed by oxygen absorbers. Once the standard lid is initially removed to start using the contents, a Gamma Lid can be used to re-seal the bucket against moisture, rodents and insects. A quality bucket and hammer-on gasketed lid will provide a fully adequate oxygen barrier for at least a couple years of storage. For even longer term oxygen-free storage, inside your buckets you can also use Mylar liner bags which, when heat-sealed shut around your food, will effectively block oxygen permeation for years and years.

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$32.00

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Yellow popcorn
By DK in MN on 4/24/2020 Verified Buyer

As good as everything else I've purchased and shipped 2 days before they said it would, even with the current challenge. Thanks, I'll be back for sure.

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Love your Non-GMO Grains!
By Cherlynn B. in MO on 5/23/2017 Verified Buyer

It is so hard for us to find non-GMO grains in our area. I love getting them so very quickly from you all sealed up so lovely ready to store away for future use. More and more people are finding they can't eat GMO foods so having these available is quite a blessing for us! Popcorn is great popped but it also make the best corn meal when ground up!

Moderator : Thank you very much for your review, Cherlynn! We do want to mention one caveat: It's fine to grind popcorn in some mills, but there are some other mills for which popcorn is too hard and will damage the machine. Everyone should be sure to check the manufacturer's can-mill list before grinding popcorn for meal or flour. (FYI, sweet corn is also a no-no in some grain mills.)
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By Dan M. in KY on 4/13/2016 Verified Buyer

This pop corn makes great corn meal, We love it

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By Dwight A. in MT on 2/04/2020 Verified Buyer

Very happy with the quick delivery. I love the easy open lid I also ordered. As promised, no unpopped kernals.

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Great service
By David K. in LA on 4/12/2016 Verified Buyer

The products I ordered arrived without hitch in excellent condition. Email correspondence and phone communication went well, no glitches and absolutely no complaints. I purchased my items for long term storage and have not opened any of the 5 gallon pails.

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Good old fashioned popcorn
By James B. in TX on 3/17/2016 Verified Buyer

Very fast delivery and can either pop it or grind it for corn meal. Wife is going through all the different grains I bought. Good eating.

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