From anecdotal evidence that traditional African sorghum and millet foods are filling and provide sustained energy, we hypothesized that gastric emptying rates of sorghum and millet foods are slow, particularly compared to non-traditional starchy foods (white rice, potato, wheat pasta). A human trial to study gastric emptying of staple foods eaten in Bamako, Mali was conducted using a carbon-13...

The Peiligang Culture (9000-7000 cal. yr BP) in the Middle Yellow River region, North China, has long been considered representative of millet farming. It is still unclear, however, if broomcorn millet or foxtail millet was the first species domesticated during the Peiligang Culture. Furthermore, it is also unknown whether millet was cultivated singly or together with rice at the same period. I...

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) belonging to the family Poaceae is an important millet that is widely cultivated in East Asia. Of the cultivated millets, the foxtail millet has the longest history and is one of the main food crops in South India and China. Moreover, foxtail millet is a model plant system for biofuel generation utilizing the C4 photosynthetic pathway. In this study, we carried ...

OBJECTIVES Compare glycaemic response of foods prepared with finger millet flour, using traditional stone grinding and industrial milling. DESIGN Crossover study. PARTICIPANTS Healthy volunteers (n=11) consisting of five males and six females), aged between 20 and 30 years, with a body mass index of 18.5-23.5 Kgm-2. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Blood glucose concentration was measured at fasting...

Recent genomic sequencing of the foxtail millet, an abiotic, stress-tolerant crop, has provided a great opportunity for novel gene discovery and functional analysis of this popularly-grown grass. However, few stress-mediated gene families have been studied. Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) comprise a gene superfamily encoding NAD (P) +-dependent enzymes that play the role of "aldehyde scavengers...

An experiment was conducted to compare a commercial corn-soybean meal diet with a pearl millet diet containing less soybean meal (-27%), alone or in combination with exogenous enzymes, on growth performance, jejunal villus development, ileal CP, and AA digestibility, and cecal microbial populations in broilers. One hundred sixty 1-d-old male Ross 508 broilers (5/cage) were randomly allocated to...

Over the years, ultra-endurance events have increasingly piqued the interest of the scientific community as they are considered an outstanding model to study the adaptive responses to both extreme loads and stresses on the human body (Millet andMillet, 2012). Notably, ultra-marathons, i.e., any event longer than the traditional marathon length of 42.195 km (Millet and Millet, 2012), have seen r...

Background: Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is the second-most widely planted species of millet. It known for its health benefits. Laddu are ball-shaped sweets popular in Indian Subcontinent. Laddus made flour, ghee and sugar with other ingredients that vary by recipe. They often served at festive or religious occasions. Hence, an attempt was to develop foxtail based value added laddu. Methods...

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui pertumbuhan fodder millet ( Panicum miliaceum ) dari pengaruh densitas biji tanam, intensitas cahaya dan umur panen yang berbeda. Biji tanaman digunakan adalah pearl millet, ditanam secara hidroponik pada fase . menggunakan metode rancangan acak lengkap faktorial 2x3x4 dengan 4 ulangan. Faktor pertama tanam 1,5 2,5 kg/m 2 kedua 6, 9, 12 hari. ketiga 25, 50,...

From the nutritional point of view, data on dietary fiber content, tannin and in vitro protein digestibility of processed millet is of importance, because millets are never eaten raw. Effects of commonly used traditional methods on dietary fiber, tannin content and %IVPD of two locally available pearl millet varieties (Kalukombu and Maharashtra Rabi Bajra) were investigated. The millet was subj...