• Brand: La Banda
• Description: Choclo Blanco Entero
• Made in: Argentina
• Weight: 350g
• Drained Weight: 192g
• Price: $4.30 (pesos)
• Ingredients: White Corn, Water, Salt, Acidifier, Citric Acid
• Calories: 94 (per tin)

Contender 3 immediately sets itself apart from the first 2 by being white corn, and by having no sugar listed in the ingredients (is where the "sweet" comes from with yellow corn?). I'm a little baffled by Acidifier though (this is translation I've found for the Spanish word Acidulante), I'll have to investigate more.

The label is a bit washed out which I had hoped wasn't due to it being on the shelves for the last 3 years but the Sell By date checks out so that's good. A website is listed which gives you an idea of the artistic style, but it doesn't do much.

I also like the brand - my mum & dad's initials are B and A. BandA. Get it?

• Brand: Arcor
• Description: Choclo Amarillo Cremoso
  
• Made in: Argentina
• Weight: 350g
• Drained Weight: N/A
• Price: $5.25 (pesos)
• Ingredients: Yellow Corn, Water, Sugar, Starch, Salt
• Calories: 104 (per tin)

As a Brit I've never come across Creamed Corn before but it's big in the US MidWest by all accounts, and given that at least 5 of the 17 types in the Chino are Creamed Corn it would appear to have its fans here too.

The tin can only be described one way. YELLOW. Wow. This is one yellow tin of corn. No mistaking what's in here. It might not be corn, but by hell, it's yellow.

• Brand: Cumaná
• Description: Granos de choclo amarillo enteros
• Made in: Brazil
• Weight: 320g
• Drained Weight: 200g
• Price: $4.35 (pesos)
  

• Ingredients: Corn, Water, Sugar & Salt
• Calories per portion: 112

OK. So contestant number 1 is a classic tin of corn. We know it's corn due to the label of the can being dominated by corn. No mistaking this one. The palm tree logo throws me a bit, sweetcorn doesn't strike me as very tropical, but it's from Brazil so that could explain that one. An interesting point is that the label has the name of the Technical Director of the company on it. He's called Claudio Oderich, so now you know. All the nutrition information seems in order, nothing else to compare it with yet, so we're just going to have to see how this one plays out.

In Buenos Aires there is no real concept of political correctness, they just say it like they see it and claim no offence intended. So, if a local supermarket is run by people with Asian origins, it's known as "el chino". Every couple of blocks there is a "chino". Mine is literally 30m from my front door, and I'm in my local one pretty much every day buying stuff.

I often buy tinned sweetcorn, I use it a lot in cooking and salads and stuff. I like it. The other day I noticed that my local chino had rather a lot of different varieties of corn. I counted them. 17 different types of tinned corn. This needed investigation. How could they be differentiated? Surely all corn is born equal?



Over the next few weeks I intend to investigate this baffling level of variety and ultimately crown one lucky tin as the WINNER OF THE CORNWARS!