Givens, D I and Mazumdar, S D (2025) Nutrition and health-promoting characteristics of millets: Evidence from meta-analyzes and intervention studies with a focus on diet-responsive diseases in India. In: Sorghum and Millets Chemistry, Technology, and Nutritional Attributes. Elsevier, pp. 335-349. ISBN 978-0-443-23954-0
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Millet foods are essentially whole grain which provides greater nutrient density than refined wheat and rice foods, now the staples for many. Millets are also a much-needed climate-resilient crop. There is great interest to assess whether more millets in the diet will have health benefits crucially to reduce diet-responsive diseases such as childhood stunting and anemia, which remain highly prevalent in India and others such as obesity which is increasing along with consequential cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Millets vary considerably in nutritional composition both within and between species of millet and critically there are very few data on key nutrient bioavailability and how it is influenced by food processing, cooking, etc. While there is evidence that millets have the potential to reduce the risk of some of the prevalent diet-responsive conditions, the evidence base is rather old and needs considerable updating with up-to-date millet types and robust experimental designs.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Divisions: | Global Research Program - Enabling Systems Transformation |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | nutrition, health-promoting characteristics, millets, meta-analyzes, intervention studies, diet-responsive diseases, india |
| Subjects: | Mandate crops > Millets Others > Food and Nutrition Others > India |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2025 03:51 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2025 03:51 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/13281 |
| Acknowledgement: | UNSPECIFIED |
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