Farina vs. Grits — What's the Difference?

Fine meal prepared from cereal grain and various other plant products, often used as a cooked cereal or in pudding.

Grits is a porridge made from boiled cornmeal. Hominy grits is a type of grits made from hominy – corn that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization, with the pericarp removed.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

A dish of coarsely ground maize kernels boiled with water or milk.

A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.

Plural of grit('hulled oats')

Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk, more commonly known by the trademark name Cream of Wheat.

(Western Hemisphere) Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Plural of grit

Pollen.

Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States

Fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings