Description
Handbook of Millets – Processing, Quality, and Nutrition Status
by C. Anandharamakrishnan (Editor), Ashish Rawson (Editor), C. K. Sunil (Editor)
- Updated Perspective on Millets: Provides a comprehensive and updated overview of millets, focusing on their unique characteristics and growing importance in the human diet.
- Health and Nutritional Benefits: Highlights the nutritional benefits of millets, which are increasingly consumed for their health-promoting properties, suitable for target groups ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics.
- Resilience of Millets: Discusses the resilience of millets in adverse growing conditions, including their ability to thrive in high temperatures, drought, and resistance to pests and diseases.
- Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Values: Examines different types of millet, their nutritional properties, and anti-nutritional factors that impact health benefits.
- Physicochemical Properties: Provides insights into the physicochemical properties of millets, crucial for understanding their food applications and potential health impacts.
- Future Prospects and Methodologies: Explores future prospects for millet consumption and provides an overview of current methodologies in millet cultivation, processing, and utilization.