Millet
Millet Setaria (italica millet is made of grain, shell) because of its small grain diameter 1 millimeter, Originated from the Yellow River basin in north China, the main food crop in ancient China, so the system of shang dynasty belongs to “millet and culture”. Drought, millet variety growth, there are colorful (white, red, yellow, black, orange and purple colors of millet, also have sticky millet. The earliest Chinese wine is brewed with millet. Suitable for dry and lack of millet in irrigation area. The stem, leaf is hard, can make only commonly, feed cattle can digest.
Millet in northern China, the south is called millet rice for rice said. After years of millet choose artificial weeding weeds, the appearance like rice seedlings, especially, called the “bad”, “idiom deflocculant” is.
There is a native to Africa’s imperial valley, also called the “Pearl millet” (in English), millet xijiang often confused with millet.
Millet, also called corn millet and intellectuals. Millet shell is millet.
Every 100 grams of millet protein 9.7 than rice, high. Fat and carbohydrate 1.7 grams 76.1, no less than, rice and wheat. General food does not contain of carotene, millet every 100 grams of content of 0.12 mg vitamin B1, the content of the grain in all.
XiaoMiZhou are healthy food. Boil boil, also can add jujube, red bean, sweet potatoes, lotus, lily, make a different flavors of nourishment. Millet can be ground into flour, cakes and delicious.
Compendium of materia medica, millet “diarrhea, nausea hot food, DanTian cooked porridge, empty caustic, intestines and stomach.”
The buds and malt, millet, contains a large number of enzymes, medicine, there is only feed. Be There XiaoMiZhou nerves