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Millets – A Wonder Food

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Millets are considered wonder foods. With their high levels of fibre content, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidants, they can help fight many modern-day, lifestyle diseases, Important amino acids enhance millets’ nutritional value. However, the nutritive and medicinal potentials of bioactive chemicals found in millets are largely unexplored, and a thorough evaluation of existing evidence in the literature is lacking. Millets include many bioactive principles that have been shown to reduce cardiovascular risk, diabetes, aging, and even cancer. Millets are native grains of many countries including India and can be an alternate staple food, able to overcome issues such as water scarcity, desertification, global warming, and managing carbon footprints. 

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