The name comes from the fact that the fruit of corn is shaped like a stick, and in the northern region, people customarily refer to corn as a stick, and cornmeal is naturally referred to as stick flour. Cornmeal is made from ground corn, rich in nutrients, known as the world's most recognized "golden crop". Nutritional values include lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, resisting atherosclerosis, preventing intestinal cancer, beautifying the face and slowing down the aging process. In cooking, stick noodles can be used to make a variety of food, for example, taro stick noodle porridge, which is a kind of taro as the main ingredient, adding a small amount of stick noodles made of porridge. In addition, stick flour can also be used to make steamed buns, noodles and many other foods, which is a choice for people to improve their taste.

Maize, also known as corn, corn, bale, bracts, pearl rice, etc., is a tall annual herbaceous plant in the genus Corn of the family Gramineae. The corn stalks are erect, usually unbranched, 1-4 meters tall, with aerial strut roots in the basal nodes, flat and broad leaf blades, linear-lanceolate, and orange-yellow anthers.