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Millet Bhakri a Day,
Keeps Dullness Away
Just use your millets and convert
them into a bhakri/rotla. Eat them
with a sabzi, dal, or chutney.
I know that it is tough to make
the rotlas and that they break.
But I am going to share a kitchen
secret on how to roll them without
breaking. Add warm water while
kneading the atta and then hand
Rujuta Diwekar press them before you put them
on your iron tava. It must be noted
Nutrition & Exercise
Science Expert that millets are not a replacement
for rice and wheat roti, which one
should continue having.
Why you should have millets?
Apart from being inexpensive
and easier to grow, they are a
rich source of many vitamins,
While we all know the minerals and fibre. Some of these
importance of millets and that are:
they are rich in fibre, amino • Niacin, a type of Vit B found
acids, vitamin B, minerals, etc., in millets, is useful in energy
most of us do not know how production, nerve health,
to actually include them in our and keeps the digestive
daily meals. As a result, we resort tract healthy. If you have
to eating nachni chips or multi food intolerances, this is very
grain breads, or something like helpful.
that, invariably packaged and • The magnesium, zinc and
processed. Is there a way for us to fibre found in millets make it
eat millets where we can access an excellent food for blood
all of their nutrients and create sugar regulation, especially
no ecological waste? Yes, there for Polycystic Ovarian Disease
is. And it is a well-known one. (PCOD) and diabetes.
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