🔰 Millets as wonder foods!

🌾Important: How millets are useful in Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes (NIDDM)?
Moreover, how fibres of millets binds cholesterol and protect heart diseases?

🟥Millets have phytochemicals such as flavonoids, saponins, tannins such as phelos, tannins, flavonoids, alkaloids, and terpenoids

🟢👉Millets have unique elements under the name anti-nutrients, which are essential for preserving good health and have significant impact on chronic illness✅️

👆Look at the table above

🟪 Important term in this page is 'Oxidative Stress'. 👇The imbalance between the production and accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cells and tissues often leads to oxidative stress

🟦This ROS, have a role in the development of NIDDM, mutagenesis, carcinogenesis, and DNA damage

🧬Read the relation of antioxidants, free radicals,oxidative stress and ROS above 👆-----Important one✅️

🌾Milles have leucine, niacin which help in containing LDL and ultimately Diabetes Mellitus and Heart Disorders

🟥 Novel 53kD protein called Fibroin-modulator-binding protein (FMBP) extracted from foxtail millet🌾 suppress the growth of colob cancer cells by inducing G1 phase arrest

🌾Millet based diets also aid in suppressing the STAT-3 signaling pathway which helps in regulating cancer

🟩Oxidative Stress and Addison's Disease (AD) relation 👆

🧬Info👉 tau tangles and amyloid plaques are the hallmark pathology features of AD

🟪High quantities of polyphenols in millet demonstrated remarkable oxidative resistance ✅️

🟨Millets are small-seeded cerelas, can be grown to on-farm resources and minimise off-farm resources such as chemical fetilisers, pesticides, insecticides, etc.,

🌾Major millet crops👇

👉Jowar or Sorgham
👉Bajra or Pearl Millet
👉Mandua/Ragi or Finger Millet

🌾Smal Millets like:👇

👉Kangani/Tangoon or Foxtail Millet
👉Sama/Kutti or Little Millet
👉Kodo millet
👉Jhangora/Sanwa or Barnyard Millet
👉Cheena or Porso Millet

🟥Millets crop and their local names

🌾Millets are C4 Carbon sequestering crops contributing to the reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere besides being water efficient.

🟨Millets contain several bio-active phytochemicals including feraxans, lignans, beta-glucans, insulin, resistant starch, sterols, and phenolic conpounds (e.g., ferulic acid, caffeic acid and quercetin)

🦠 Fermentation of millets using various cultures promotes the growth of gram-negative bacteria that makes millets an effective probiotic food in the gut

🟨 The two most important techniques are germination and pro-biotic fermentation.

🔵Germination is a method to improve the nutritional value of millets and aoften the structure of the kernel and decrease anti-nutritional factors like tannin and phytic acid....Germination leads to the activation of enzyme phytase which further reduces phytate to phytic acid.

👉This process increases the bio-availability of various minerals in the body and results in the improved nutritional value of millets.

🔵Fermentation too improves the bio-availability of nutrients by decreasing the phytic acid, trypsin inhibitor activity and tannic acid content.

🟩 Techniques like parboiling, irradiation and germination can enhance the shelf life of millets

🔵Inactivation of lipases is Important in enhancing shelf-life

🟢 According to ICAR, more than a thousand startups are working on coarse grains in the country....

🟨 ICAR's Hyderabad -based Indian Institute of Millet Research (IIMR) [recently mentioned many times in Union Budget too] aims to make these entrepreneurs successful by introducing their brands in the market keeping in mind International Year Of Millets

🟨IIMR has setup a technology incubator NutiHub with the help of DST to promote millets

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Make notes on Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY-RAFTAAR)
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✅️Millet Startup Innovation Challenge, a Central Govt initiative to encourage young minds to find technical and business solutions

🟥 From these pages take examples of Agri startups from different states like TN, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Andhra Pradesh etc.

🟨Use some examples where millets can be sold smartly like millets dosa, millets kichdi, millets pizza, millets idli, millets khakra, millets biscuits, cookies, laddoos etc

🟩Look at the conversation with CEO of NutriHub, IIMR who has the opinion that today's issue is not food security. Instead, its on Nutritional Security ✅️

🔵There has also been a National Agriculture Innovation Project of the World Bank to increase millet production

🅾️Is there MSP for millets too?

👉Yes, MSP is fixed for 22 cereals, pulses and oilseeds, of which three major coarse cereals are Jowar, Bajra and Ragi.

🟨 Case Study:
Bengaluru -based startup of ready-to-cook products from millets

⭕️multi-millets noodles (modern foods)

⭕️Pani poori from millets
(by Andhra Pradesh Start-up)

#ancientgrains
#moderntaste
#reach
#impact
#behaviouralchange✅️

🟩The majority of millet is produced in Africa, followed by Asia.

🇮🇳India is the largest producer of millets, followed by Niger and China

🔵Other major-millet producing countries include Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal

👉While millet is not a major food crop in the developed world, it plays a vital role in the diets of many people in developing world/countries

🟩 Millets Grain🌾constitute three major constituents:

👉millet grain-the germ
👉the starch-containing endosperm
👉the protective pericarp

🟩Millets Procesing:

• traditional techniques that are commonly used include decortication, malting, fermentation, roasting, flaking and pounding. These methods are mostly labor-intensive and give a poor-quality product


👆Read above the processing methods and their significance