With focus on millets in view of International Year of Millets-2023, the CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, on Thursday released eight new products based on millets at the ongoing ‘One Week One Lab’, a CSIR campaign, on the campus here.
The products that were launched include instant finger millet upma mix, little millet puttu podi, ragi-based ready-to-eat malted weaning food, finger millet semolina, instant finger millet rava idli mix, instant finger millet khichdi dal, instant finger millet halva, and ragi-based malt hydrolysate.
As finger millet grains are an excellent source of various nutrients and many health-promoting components such as dietary fibre, minerals, vitamins, and phytochemicals that include phenolic compounds and have several potential health benefits, scientists at the CFTRI developed the products with the objective of maximising use of finger millets.
