Millets : Properties, Processing, and Health Benefits PDF
by Anil Kumar Siroha, Sneh Punia, Sukhvinder Singh Purewal, Kawaljit Singh Sandhu
Description
Millets are low cost cereal grains and widely used in the food industry and animal husbandry as an important source of food and feed. As a rich source of starch, protein, minerals, vitamins, and specific bioactive compounds that contain beneficial antioxidant properties, they have gained considerable attention as a botanical dietary supplement and various functional foods.
Millets: Properties, Processing, and Health Benefits explores millet production, chemistry and nutritional aspects, processing technologies, product formulations, and more. Understanding the properties of millets provides a basis for better utilizing millet crops, in addition to further development of millets as an important industrial crop.
Key Features:
- Provides millet taxonomy, history, nutritional aspects, and health benefits
- Discusses the physical and functional properties of millets
- Explores various millet-based products
- Deals with starch composition, structure, properties, and applications
- Touches on postharvest management of millets
This book combines information on the composition, functional properties and processing along with information on the health properties of millets. With its unique presentation on millets flour and starch, it will be suitable for those wanting to use millets in various food products, including food technologists, nutritionists, research scientists, and agriculture professionals.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:CRC Press
- Publication Date:29/07/2021
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- ISBN:9781000402865
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:CRC Press
- Publication Date:29/07/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781000402865
