Green Giant

Green Giant is an American brand with a long history in tinned and frozen vegetables, best known for its sweetcorn and for the smiling green giant on the label. In Britain the name is closely tied to tinned sweetcorn, and the tin is a regular in family cupboards and lunchboxes.

We carry Green Giant sweetcorn in our sweetcorn, peas and mushrooms collection, part of the tinned vegetables range. The kernels are cut from the cob and sealed at their sweetest, so they keep their bite and colour and need nothing more than a quick drain before they go into the pan or bowl.

Indian cooks turn tinned sweetcorn into street style masala corn with butter, chilli, lime and chaat masala, into corn and capsicum sabzi, and into crisp corn pakoras and cutlets. It is the base of Indo-Chinese sweetcorn soup, it lifts a vegetable pulao or fried rice, and it tops a paneer tikka pizza. For a Sri Lankan table, fold it into an egg roti filling or a quick seeni sambol sandwich. Tinned corn is sweeter and softer than frozen, so add it at the end of cooking to keep the kernels whole.

Once opened, tip any leftover sweetcorn into a covered bowl in the fridge and use it within a couple of days, never storing it in the open tin. Keep unopened tins in a cool cupboard and check for dents before use. For other ready-cooked vegetables, compare Green Giant with our tinned saag and spinach and jackfruit and Sri Lankan vegetables.