Green revolution led to food security in our country with high levels of crop production. With course of time food security got stronger and the need of nutritional security was felt. The new cultivars developed during that duration provided food to the increasing population of the country but the nutritional hunger became a grim issue. Millets are the diverse crops which are having biotic and abiotic resistance and along with that it has got a high nutritional value. This nutritional value is so diverse that it almost overcomes the deficiency caused due to the consumption of other staple crops. This review gives a glimpse of the nutritional attributes of the millets and provides a comprehensive idea for their consumption in the human diet.

PDF