Husk that corn! And leave it at that. We love our summer corn grilled, boiled, steamed and slathered, but raw corn—that’s right, no cooking—is nature’s candy. We think of corn as a vegetable, but it’s also a grain or a seed that’s picked before maturity, says University of Florida horticulture professor Stephen Olson. And like other seeds that we eat raw—think sugar snap peas with their crunchy pods and delicate fleshy globes—raw corn bursts with succulence.