Corn

Yellow corn flour is made from yellow dent corn that has been cleaned, degerminated and roller milled. Corn flour is a powder and is used as an ingredient in breakfast cereals, breaders, batters, soft pretzels, stews, sandwich cookies, baby foods and pancake mixes. It is also used in industrial fermentation, as a glue extender for plywood and as an ingredient in pet foods. 

Yellow corn grits are made from yellow dent corn that has been cleaned, degerminated and roller milled. Grits are “gritty” in nature and are primarily used as an adjunct in beer production and as the main ingredient in extruded snack foods. Grits are also used to make polenta and tamales. 

Yellow cornmeal is made from yellow dent corn that has been cleaned, degerminated and roller milled. Cornmeal, while finer and paler than corn grits, is still granular in nature. Cornmeal is used as an ingredient in extruded snack foods, corn muffins, breakfast cereal, cornmeal mush, polenta, breaders and batter mixes. Cornmeal can often be found on the outside of English muffins, pizza crusts and hearth breads. Cornmeal is also used as a pharmaceutical carrier, as a raw material for industrial fermentation and as a natural abrasive cleaner in soaps and facial scrubs.