Why Meat Causes Inflammation. The anti-inflammatory effect of plant-based diets is about more than just the power of plants. Itâs also the avoidance of animal foods. In my Care2 column last week, Dietary Treatment for Crohns Disease, I profiled the extraordinary power of even a semi-vegetarian diet to calm inflammatory bowel disease.
Grits are made of dried corn kernels. Grits are made of dried kernels of corn. The hull and germ are removed, producing hominy, a food Native Americans have eaten for thousands of years, according to the University of South Carolina's South Carolina by Food publication.
Grits is of Native American origin and is similar to other thick maize-based porridges from around the world such as polenta. The word grits may be treated as either singular or plural; historically, in the American South it was always singular. It derives from the Old English word grytt, meaning coarse meal.