[at-l] Grits

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 06:10 PM 1/26/2005 -0800, Marta Clark wrote:
> >Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:37:23 -0600
> >From: Tom Fort <tfort@jam.rr.com>
> >I would have guessed grits had no nutritional >value.
>    However, after
> >looking them up, they do seem to have their place.
> >However small it
> >may
> >be.   High in sodium!
>
> >http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s019e.html
>
> >T.
>
>Or, as a Yankee friend of mine said many years ago,
>"Grits.  What generations of Southerners have been
>malnourished on."
>
>Poor boy didn't appreciate what he was missing.
>
>Marta (who eats her grits with butter, salt, and
>pepper)
>
>PS--Grits 1st cousin, polenta, is also served with
>cheese, and sometimes with wild mushrooms.  Very tasty.

Hmmm. Low glycemic index too. Only 40 (anything under 55 is low). Per 
<http://www.glycemicindex.com/>. You'll have to search for hominy. They 
don't recognize "grits".