Table 1.

Nutritional content of whole grain cereals (Longvah et al. 2017; Bora et al. 2019a; Patil et al. 2015; Verma et al. 2015; Sharma et al. 2017; Sharma and Gujral 2019a)

Cereal grains	Total starch (%)	Protein (%)	Lipid (%)	Ash (%)	Total Dietary fibre (%)	Iron (mg/100 g)	Calcium (mg/100 g)
Wheat	57.53 ± 1.86	10.59 ± 0.60	1.47 ± 0.05	1.42 ± 0.19	11.23 ± 0.77	3.97 ± 0.78	39.36 ± 5.65
Rice	71.31 ± 1.91	9.16 ± 0.75	1.24 ± 0.08	1.04 ± 0.18	4.43 ± 0.54	1.02 ± 0.35	10.93 ± 1.79
Sorghum	59.70 ± 1.70	9.97 ± 0.43	1.73 ± 0.31	1.39 ± 0.34	10.22 ± 0.49	3.95 ± 0.94	27.60 ± 3.71
Pearl millet	60.6 ± 0.7	14.1 ± 0.0	5.43 ± 0.64	2.1 ± 0.1	11.49 ± 0.62	6.42 ± 1.04	27.35 ± 2.16
Finger millet	63.1 ± 1.4	6.2 ± 0.1	1.92 ± 0.14	8.0 ± 0.0	18.90 ± 0.35	4.62 ± 0.36	364 ± 58.0
Little millet	55.6 ± 1.3	7.9 ± 0.0	1.49 ± 0.01	4.2 ± 0.0	14.90 ± 0.54	8.18 ± 0.01	22.02 ± 0.01
Foxtail millet	55.1 ± 0.2	10.5 ± 0.1	2.55 ± 0.13	3.5 ± 0.0	15.20 ± 0.40	2.34 ± 0.46	15.27 ± 1.28
Banyard millet	55.8 ± 2.9	10.0 ± 0.1	2.02 ± 0.06	4.3 ± 0.1	14.70 ± 0.44	6.91 ± 0.11	23.16 ± 1.50
Kodo millet	52.9 ± 0.3	6.2 ± 0.0	3.6 ± 0.03	3.6 ± 0.0	17.20 ± 0.23	50.36 ± 0.44	24.83 ± 0.17
Proso millet	64.5 ± 0.7	10.9 ± 0.1	3.89 ± 0.35	8.0 ± 0.0	13.60 ± 0.59	1.26 ± 0.44	16.06 ± 1.54