Processing of corn with additives and preservatives differentiates modern Western corn products from traditional cornmeal.

“What's in that mealy meal corn and water maybe a bit of salt right what's in my Frosted Flakes a whole bunch of stuff that I can't even name and when you look at it from 50 000 foot overview they're both corn products this one just has sugar and this one just has salt well no they're they're very very different corn products right down to the soil that they're grown in the fertilizer that's put on them and and it goes on and on further to that I think that I think that you can be perfectly healthy eating veggies and cornmeal and thing and you might not agree with that if you're eating it in a very limited capacity”