Millets: Nutritional composition, some health benefits and processing - A review

Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 501-508

  Amadou, Issoufou ^a   Gounga, Mahamadou E ^b   Le, Guo Wei ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Composition; Health benefits; Millets; Processing; Protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879256052     PISSN: 2079052X     EISSN: 20790538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9755/ejfa.v25i7.12045     Document Type: Article

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