Dr Poonam Yadav

DES Home Science

poonnamyadav@gmail.com
Krishi Vigyan Kendra Mahendergarh
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar
Health Benefits of Pearl Millet
Health Benefits of Pearl Millet
Health Benefits of Pearl Millet
 Issues Related to use of Pearl Millet
• It has high nutritive value but it is not in regular diet among
urban inhabitants due to its specific odour, colour,
coarseness.
• Further, poor shelf life of the pearl millet flour refrains its
consumption on a large scale.
• Therefore efforts are needed for the development of
processing techniques to harness nutritional potential of
pearl millet based functional foods
• Lack of ready-to-use processed foods based on pearl-millet
• Lack of awareness of nutritional and therapeutic potential of
pearl-millet
 Primary processing of Pearl millet
 Cleaning
 Dehulling
 Sorting
 Polishing / Pearling
 Grading
 Size reduction /Grinding
 Drying
 Storage
 Secondary Post harvest operations
 Puffing

 Baking

 Milling

 Flaking

 Value Added Products of Pearl Millet

 Value added products of pearl millet
Conventional Roti (unleavened pan cake)
Multi-grain flour
Fermented foods
Parboiling of millets
Papad
Non conventional Millet flakes
Popping/puffing
Weaning food
Noodles-vermicelli
Bakery products
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