It is often used for tortillas and tamales. Corn grits are also available in white or yellow. Grits are more coarsley ground than cornmeal. It is usually combined with white flour because it does not have gluten of its own. Barley is sold also as pearl barley to be used mainly as a soup ingredient.
Buckwheat flour is made from the seed of the fagopyrum, an herb.
This flour is suitable for making pancakes. In Russia, it is called kasha. It is popular in Jewish cooking. In Japan and Korea, buckwheat noodles, called soba, are a staple. Oat bran is the envelope of the groat, composed of the outermost pericarp.