Stanislaus Antony Ceasar – författare

Millets are small-seeded cereal crops grown and consumed by people in developing countries in Asia and Africa. These ancient foods have been supplying consumers with major nutrients and health benefits for several thousand years. Although these foods have been cultivated and consumed since ancient times, the importance of their health benefits has started reaching a wider community in recent years. As a result, the United Nations declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets to expand the benefits of millets to the mass population around the world.Millets: Nutrients With Enduring Health Benefits covers the nutrient contents of millet seeds and the health benefits that each millet may offer by consumption. This book introduces millets and their origins and provides details on majorly cultivated millets such as finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet, proso millet and little millet. The amount of energy, minerals, vitamins, phenolic compounds, amino acids and their benefits are covered in detail for each millet in this book. Some millet recipes and preparation methods are also included, making this work a useful guide for researchers, health workers, nutritionists and millet researchers.

This edited volume discusses each millet, its climate resilience and nutrition supplementation properties in detail and help to understand and think forward the future studies.Millets, often called Nutri-cereals, are easily digestible, gluten-free, having low glycemic index, and are high in antioxidants. The ever-changing global climate and water shortages also direct humans to look for alternative food for stable cereals like rice. Millets are a good fit for harsh climates, especially water and fertilizer shortages. The major reasons for decrease in the consumption of millets are the lack of production techniques, lack of awareness of nutritional merits and lack of processing technologies of millets. It has become imperative to reorient the efforts on the millets crop to generate demand through value-addition of processed foods, nutritional evaluation and creation of awareness, so that human and animal health can be maintained sustainably. Millets have the potential nutritional, pharmaceutical properties that fulfill the requirement of the habitat, and obviate dependence on major food crops. Millets will become alternative crops to feed ever-growing new mouth to feed. This book provides a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical updates about climate resilience and the nutrition supplementation roles of millets. It also covers the production, marketing, and value-added product development of millets.This book is a valuable resource for scientists, teachers, agriculturists, capacity builders, the food industry, and policymakers and will serve as additional reading material for undergraduate and postgraduate students of life science.