Millets Magical Crops

The first edition of Millets Magical Crops, strengthened focus on its title, this begins with Millets or nutri-cereals basic concept that were domesticated and cultivated as early as 10,000 years ago. The millets cultivation is taken up usually in degraded and marginal lands that receive very less rainfall and are poor in soil nutrient content. Seven important millets cultivated globally are finger millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet, barnyard millet, proso millet, kodo millet, and little millet. Overdependence on cereals after the green revolution and the present-day sedentary lifestyle of people has proliferated health-related disorders like obesity, diabetes, coronary diseases, gastrointestinal disorders and risk of colon, breast, and oesophageal cancer.

The only way to fight back is through the introduction of nutritionally rich millets in our daily diets. Millets are unique for their richness in dietary fibers, antioxidants, minerals, phytochemicals, polyphenols, and proteins; that act as elixir to fight against health-related disorders. There are many nutrition based textbooks within the market. A number of them are purely basic while others are applied, and there are only a few books which cover both these aspects together. For this reason, the scholars learning nutrition in their undergraduate courses should rely upon multiple books to accumulate a sound knowledge of the topic.

This book is exclusive with a simultaneous and equal emphasis on basic and applied aspects of millets nutrition. This textbook is comprehensively written to satisfy the curriculum requirements of undergraduate courses in home science, medical, dental, pharmacy, life-sciences and other categories (agriculture, veterinary, etc.) where students learn nutrition together of the topics or main subjects. This book gives a brand new orientation to the topic of nutrition so the scholars appreciate the nice importance and significance of the appliance of nutrition to all or any the fields.

This textbook could be a distillation of our knowledge and teaching experience in millets nutrition. It contains pre-digested information on food and nutrition permanently understanding, assimilation and reproducibility. Each page is crafted with a fine eye. The final purpose of this book is to equip the reader with comprehensive knowledge in millets nutrition. Although we've made every effort to form this book error free, we are under no illusion. We welcome comments, criticism and suggestions from the college, students and other readers and community workers and this can help us to form improvements within the next edition.