“…Research is being done to prepare millet and milk-based fermented products/substrates to improve nutritional health. Several such kinds of products were prepared previously, such as a composite dairy-cereal substrate ( Ganguly & Sabikhi, 2012 ), Rabadi -like fermented milk beverage using pearl millet ( Modha & Pal, 2011 ), fermented millet milk based curd ( Sheela, Moorthy UmaMaheswari, Kanchana, Kamalasundari, & Hemalatha, 2018 ), pearl millet based fermented skim milk product ( Basu & Tomar, 2016 ), whey skim milk-cereal based probiotic beverage ( Ganguly, Sabikhi, & Singh, 2021 ), fermented finger millet-based yogurt-like beverage ( Vila-Real et al, 2022 ), milk-cereal (millet) based composite substrate ( Ganguly et al, 2022 ) and probiotics enriched rabadi beverage (PERB) ( Yadav, Shukla, Kumari, Dhewa, & Kumar, 2024 ). Selective fermentation of millet and skim milk-based blend with desired culture (phytate degrading bacteria) could be a potential strategy to make micronutrient-enriched products with improved bioavailability.…”