Biodiversity and Nutraceutical Quality of Some Indian Millets

Gupta, Nidhi; Srivastava, Anoop Kumar; Pandey, V. N.

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“…Millets must also be accepted as functional food and nutraceuticals because they provide dietary fibers, proteins, energy, minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants required for human health. Several potential health benefits such as preventing cancer and cardiovascular diseases, reducing tumor incidence, lowering blood pressure, risk of heart disease, cholesterol, and rate of fat absorption, delaying gastric emptying, and supplying gastrointestinal bulk were reported for millets (Truswell ; Gupta and others ). Recently, the U.S. Dept.…”

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“…However, in many African and Asian areas, millets serve as a major food component and various traditional foods and beverages, such as bread (fermented or unfermented), porridges, and snack foods are made of millet, specifically among the nonaffluent segments in their respective societies (Chandrasekara and Shahidi ; Chandrasekara and others 2012). In addition to their nutritive value, several potential health benefits such as preventing cancer and cardiovascular diseases, reducing tumor incidence, lowering blood pressure, risk of heart disease, cholesterol and rate of fat absorption, delaying gastric emptying, and supplying gastrointestinal bulk have been reported for millet (Truswell ; Gupta and others ). Millet grains, before consumption and for preparing of food, are usually processed by commonly used traditional processing techniques include decorticating, malting, fermentation, roasting, flaking, and grinding to improve their edible, nutritional, and sensory properties.…”

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Millet Grains: Nutritional Quality, Processing, and Potential Health Benefits

Saleh

Zhang

Chen

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Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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In the 21st century, climate changes, water scarcity, increasing world population, rising food prices, and other socioeconomic impacts are expected to generate a great threat to agriculture and food security worldwide, especially for the poorest people who live in arid and subarid regions. These impacts present a challenge to scientists and nutritionists to investigate the possibilities of producing, processing, and utilizing other potential food sources to end hunger and poverty. Cereal grains are the most important source of the world's food and have a significant role in the human diet throughout the world. As one of the most important drought-resistant crops, millet is widely grown in the semiarid tropics of Africa and Asia and constitutes a major source of carbohydrates and proteins for people living in these areas. In addition, because of their important contribution to national food security and potential health benefits, millet grain is now receiving increasing interest from food scientists, technologists, and nutritionists. The aim of this work was to review the recent advances in research carried out to date for purposes of evaluation of nutritional quality and potential health benefits of millet grains. Processing technologies used for improving the edible and nutritional characteristics of millet as well as challenges, limitations, and future perspectives to promote millet utilization as food for a large and growing population are also discussed.

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Section: Potential Health Benefits Of Millet Grains and Their Fractionsmentioning

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Millet Grains: Nutritional Quality, Processing, and Potential Health Benefits

Saleh

Zhang

Chen

et al. 2013

Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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“…finger millet, foxtail millet, prosomillet and kodo millets have been examined for the presence of phenol, tannins, alkaloids, flavonoids and saponins. All these compounds have notable effect as immunity modulators, anti carcinogen, regulator of cell proliferation, delaying gastric emptying, and supplying gastrointestinal bulk and free radical scavengers along with control over cholestrol activity [8][9][10].…”

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Alternative Healthy Food Crops

Sharma¹

2014

J Nutr Food Sci

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Plants having diverse profile in terms of nutrition, availability, tolerance to harsh climatic conditions and possibility of usages as food, forage and biofuel usually referred as Alternative plants. This article will only be focused on the plants having value to reinstate themselves as alternative food crop for the burgeoning population. Indigenous communities across the globe are familiar with a large diversity of flora and fauna that provide sustenance in form of food and medicine. The 'plants for a future' website reveals a list of more than 7000 underutilized species with different values (PFAF website). Most of these plants thrive well on impoverished or marginal soils and dry weather conditions. Millets, Buckwheat, Oats, and Chenopods are coming up as imperative nutritious option. The multipurpose use of Millets, Buckwheat, Oats, Chenopods and Barley coupled with early maturity, low nutrient demand and ability to adapt well to marginal and degraded lands makes them an ideal crop for future sustainable agriculture.

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“…So these grains are dragging more attention from developing and underdeveloped countries in utilization terms as food and in developed countries for their great potential in production of biofilms and bioethanol (Li et al, 2008). Additionally, they also have nutraceutical properties and provide health benefits like cancer prevention, tumor incidence reduction, cardiovascular disease, low blood pressure, cholesterol problem, fat absorption rate, heart disease, gastric problems, and also gastro-intestinal bulk supply (Truswell 2002; Gupta et al, 2012). They are crops with small seeds with wide varieties like pearl millet, kodo millet, finger millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, barnyard millet and little millet (Bouis 2000; Kaur et al, 2012).…”

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Millet Grain Processing, Utilization and Its Role in Health Promotion: A Review

Rathore¹

2016

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Abstract:The enormously increasing population is raising needs for solving the problem of food scarcity. Researchers and nutritionists are working hard to find the cheaper and larger sources of nutrients to deal with this scarcity. Pearl millet, a staple crop is economically feasible for poorer section of the world's population and works are going on for the improvement in the bio-accessibility of the minerals for increasing its utilization. Researches are proving pearl millet comparably better in nutritional quality with high protein content, energy, minerals like iron and zinc, vitamins, dietary fibre, less glycemic index and phytochemicals like antioxidants. New advanced techniques applied for post-harvest technology and value addition are giving out more products of wide acceptance in rural as well as urban areas. In relation with the nutritional quality, convenience of food uptake and other sensory properties, many food processing technologies have been developed. These techniques are widely used now-a-days and are milling, decortication, soaking, germination/malting, fermentation etc. These processes increase the nutritional value and are very effective in dealing with undernourishment problem and other food and health management practices. A large scale implementation of these technologies or commercialized use will increase the ease of adopting their products at wide scale. This type of commercialization will not only deal with the undernourishment problem but also will earn great profits for all the persons in chain from producer like farmers to the consumers but will require policy-support and campaign for health, ecological sustainability and nutritional benefits of the crop. So this review focusses on pearl millet's high nutritional aspects, the post-harvest techniques potent for its improvement at large scale and the related health benefits to support the need at rural as well as urban level.

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Biodiversity and Nutraceutical Quality of Some Indian Millets

Cited by 65 publications

References 24 publications

Millet Grains: Nutritional Quality, Processing, and Potential Health Benefits

Millet Grains: Nutritional Quality, Processing, and Potential Health Benefits

Alternative Healthy Food Crops

Millet Grain Processing, Utilization and Its Role in Health Promotion: A Review

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