Both millets and pseudo-cereals remained underutilized crops but these are highly nutritious. What is the scope of research for their incorporation and formulation of functional foods.
Minor grains (sorghum, millets) and pseudocereals (amaranth, buckwheat , quinoa) are very important underutilized food grains, which are needed to be explored due to their nutritional and health attributes. These minor grains contribute in balanced diet, and can ensure nutritional as well as food security. These millets and pseudocereals contain higher content of essential amino acids as compared to cereals (methionine, lysine, arginine, tryptophan, and sulfur-containing amino acids ) and also rich in health promoting vitamins, minerals,dietary fibre and phytochemicals. Additionally Quinoa and amaranth possess very small size starch granules with high content of amylopectin, which leads to good freeze-thaw stability,viscosity, higher water-binding capacity , higher swelling power and exhibit less retrogradation than cereals. Development of health foods and functional food by value addition of these grains and their commercialization will promote the millets and can reduce the life-style related health disorders.
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millets and pseudo-cereals are undoubtedly a store house of important nutrients. Therapeutic delivery via millet incorporated functional foods can offer advantage in variety of human diseases and disorders. Functional foods can be developed which aim at weight loss, celiac disease, hypercholesterimia, CVD and many others. In addition, millets can be utilised in development of nutritious food products for geriatrics who are in special need of nutritious foods.
yes, millets have lot of scope for research as they have been included in superfood. As compared to wheat, they have less or no quantity of glutine (which is considered bad for health), millets have less diseases as they not so domesticated. They generally grow at faster rate when compared to other domesticated crops.