Abstract:The main nutrient ingredients of grains in 14 fresh corn varieties were analyzed, and the accumulat-ed dynamic of these ingredients during filling stage were studied, aiming to screen the physicochemical index relat-ed with optimum harvesting time for fresh corn. The fresh corn was involved in five types, that is, sweet, enhancedsweet, super-sweet, waxy, and waxy+sweet. Many indexes of grain among filling stages and varieties showed signifi-cant difference, which included total soluble sugar content, sucrose content, reducing sugar content, protein content, amylopectin content, amylose content and moisture content. Along with grain developing, the dynamic curves of total soluble sugar content and sucrose content were similar, both increasing gradually and then decreasing gradually; the reducing sugar and moisture contents gradually decreased; the amylopectin and amylose contents gradually in-creased; protein content was relatively stable. According to the relationships between grain nutrient ingredients and grain quality, that moisture content together with total soluble sugar content and crude starch content in grain should be adopted as optimum harvesting index of sweet corn and waxy corn.