Plant foods are important due to their antioxidant activity (AOA) attributed to the phenolics which are known to protect organisms against harmful effects of oxygen radicals. However, information on antioxidant activity of Indian plant foods is scanty. Therefore, the present study evaluated the AOA of cereals, millets, pulses and legumes, commonly consumed in India and assessed the relationship...

Multi-nutrient mixes with different combinations of cereals, millets, pulses, soy protein isolate and dairy whitener were formulated as per the nutritional requirements of school-going children. Effect of malted finger-millet or sprouted green gram present in the mixes on the nutritional and functional properties were studied and compared with their un-sprouted counterparts. On sprouting the Wa...

Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors constitute one of the largest families in plants and are known to be involved in various developmental processes and stress tolerance. We report the characterization of a stress responsive bHLH transcription factor from stress adapted species finger millet which is homologous to OsbHLH57 and designated as EcbHLH57. The full length sequence of ...

Germinated finger millet, pearl millet and foxtail flours were investigated for their antinutritional factors, functional properties, colour, mineral nutritional composition. The results showed that tannin in was reduced after germination is 168 mg/100g, whereas it 115 197 mg/100g respectively. germinated flour, flour decrease bulk density viz. 540, 475 489 kg/m3 exhibited 124.04, 125.0 120.23 ...

Background: Finger millet cultivation in Alfisols (Typic rhodustalf, Palaviduthi soil series) demands an optimal integrated plant nutrient supply to achieve desired yields. In order develop the test crop response fertilizer and farm yard manure (FYM) through nutrition system (STCR-IPNS) terms of uptake, yield pre-sowing STVs, a field investigation on [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] was conduct...

The present investigation was undertaken to develop nutritious and fibre rich cake by substituting a part of wheat flour (maida) with barley and finger millet flours. Sponge cake was prepared from maida alone and by replacing maida with varying levels (5 to 20%) of barley and finger millet (FM) flours. Cake prepared from maida recorded the highest overall acceptability score but it did not diff...

Finger millet also known as ragi in India is one of the important cereals occupies highest area under cultivation among the small millets. Finger millet is comparable to rice with regard to protein (6-8%) and fat (1-2%) and is superior to rice and wheat with respect to mineral and micronutrient contents. It is a major source of dietary carbohydrates for a large section of society. Additionally ...