In this video, I review the health benefits of Millets, including its potential impact on diabetes.

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Millets are highly nutritious but vastly ignored as a main source of food primarily due to lack of awareness.

You've heard of ancient grains, millets ain't messing around, arguably the first grains cultivated by humankind,

not just dating back 5,000 years, but maybe 10,000 years. Why the plural, Millets, talk about lack of

awareness, I had no idea that Millet wasn't the name of a specific grain. Millet is just a generic

term that doesn't just apply to a bunch of different species, but to a bunch of

totally different plants.

There are so-called major and minor millets.

There's pearl millet, which is what I think most people think of as millet, but then

there's proso, fox tail, and finger millets, which are all completely different grains.

They look similar, but they're not the same.

Fibers, one of the main things we're looking for in a whole grain and codo millet,

is like off the charts, but compared to other grains,

finger and foxtail millet also beat off the bunch, though note that what most

people think of as millet is really on the low side.

But looking at the polyphenol content, even plain millet beats out the other grains,

including sorghum, which I previously hyped for its polyphenol content. But again, Koto milk seems to win the day.

Total antioxidant-wise, though Koto and finger millet are comparably high.

Nutrition-wise, finger millet is said to have eight times more calcium than other grains,

but looks to me more like 10 times more just off the

charts, three times as much calcium as milk.

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