Tropical Sun Cornmeal Grits Grits are most commonly served as breakfast or a side dish to other meals. Similar to cornmeal, grits are made from dried and ground corn and are a coarser grind. Tropical Sun Corn Meal is great for homemade cornbread, cornmeal porridge, cornmeal pudding, and a wide variety of other foods. Generally, Cornmeal is coarse flour ground from dried maize (corn). It is a common staple food,  especially in the Caribbean and South America and is ground 3 different consistencies such as fine, Coarse and Grits.