The products of maize dry milling include flaking grits, coarse, medium and fine grits, coarse or granulated meal, fine meal and maize flour. Flaking grits are used for the manufacture of the ready to eat breakfast cereal 'cornflakes'. Grits from yellow and orange maize are preferred. Coarse grits and medium grits are used in the manufacture of cereal products and snack foods. Fine grits are used in brewing.

Maize porridge, made from fine grits or coarse meal (flour), and flavoured with cheese, is called polenta. Coarse or granulated meal is used in pancake and muffin mixes, corn snacks, cereal products and other bakery uses.

Fine meal is used for making maize bread and in bakery mixes, infant foods and breakfast cereals. Maize flour uses include bread and pancake mixes, infant foods, biscuits, wafers, as filler and carrier in meat products, and in breakfast cereals.