Millet offers a highly nutritious alternative to traditional staple grains like rice and wheat, particularly in terms of protein, fiber, micronutrients, and its ability to regulate blood sugar. Incorporating it into your daily diet can help combat malnutrition and lifestyle diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and provides a safe, gluten-free alternative for those with gluten intolerance. By incorporating millet into your meals, you can benefit from better health and nutritional balance.

Millets are highly nutrient-dense and rich in essential vitamins and minerals.

Nobody benefits from millets' nutritious characteristics when they are not used for food. For example, the U.S. annually harvests over 400,000 acres (>160,000 hectares) of proso millet grain, but about 85% is packaged and fed to backyard wild birds. Proso, and other millet production is not limited by farmers' ability to produce it, but by processors not using millets for food, beverages, and essential oils. Processing industries, governments, and universities must help convert millet availability to food to capture millets' human benefits.