Bran : Recent Study
A recent study highlights that keeping bran on millet improves the health benefits and should be promoted in Indian diets to improve diet quality.
- Bran is the edible broken seed coat, or protective outer layer, of wheat, rye, or other cereal grains, separated from the kernel.
- In flour processing, the coarse chaff, or bran, is removed from the ground kernels by sifting or bolting in a rotating, meshed, cylindrical frame.
- It provides dietary fiber and many different bioactive substances, including phenolic compounds, which can exert a beneficial effect on human health.
- Removing the bran from millets results in decreasing the protein, dietary fibre, fat, mineral and phytate content in them while increasing the carbohydrates and amylose content.
- Dehusked millets are nutritious and should be promoted in Indian diets to improve diet quality, debranned millets are nutritionally inferior and can increase the glycemic load of Indian diets.
