Their slow releasing and ability to regulate hunger makes glycaemic index and glycaemic load to be low. Millets have not only resistance starch, they are by nature prebiotic and probiotic and are anti-inflammatory. This data had to be generated for labelling and we are going ahead with more studies to assess the benefits of millets on our health, especially on gut microbiome. We have also done trails involving National Institute of Nutrition, to find out the benefits to patients suffering from different ailments like diabetes and others. As part of the run up to the International Year of Millets, one of the initiatives is the collaboration of ICAR-IIMR with Apollo Hospitals to reach the goodness of millets to the patients. So India will be the leader to take it forward to the other countries. This was proposed by India, the UNO agreed to it and 74 countries supported it. As you all are aware, UN General Assembly declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Dayakar Rao said, I am the CEO of Nutrihub, a commercial facade of Indian Institute of Millets Research – ICMR, nurtures start-ups, we get into stake holder engagement and try to take millet promotion further across the country. Apollo Hospitals will popularise super food millet diet among patients across all our hospitals, says Dr Sangita Reddy.ĭr B. Above all they are very healthy and a panacea for several lifestyle diseases the current generation suffer from. They are farmer friendly being inexpensive to cultivate and generate sizeable profits. Millet farming is environment friendly, they don’t drain our water resources as rain water suffices to cultivate them, don’t pollute soil, millets are organic as their cultivation doesn’t need pesticides and insecticides. Millet cultivation and consumption is a win-win proposition from both environmental and health perspective. This will enhance farmers’ earnings with no middlemen and enable the Hospital to have a dedicated source of grain supply. Apollo Hospitals is in the process of setting up a mechanism to source the millets directly from the farmers. The Cloud Kitchen serves all the local traditional South Indian and North Indian cuisines, based out of super food Millets. This Cloud Kitchen was commended and awarded as the best cloud kitchen in India, by Indian Institute of Millets Research – ICMR.
Apollo Hospitals is continuing this research endeavour in collaboration with Indian Institute of Millets Research – ICMR, to add more healthy and nutritious recipes made from super food millets and popularise it to be the staple food, like it was for our ancestors.Īpollo Hospitals has set up first Cloud Kitchen of its kind for millet based cuisine, in India, at its premises in Jubilee Hills. Special care has been taken to make these millet cuisines easily digestible and healthy, as they form the diet for patients often with weakened and compromised digestive system. The F&B team at Apollo Hospitals, comprising of senior dieticians, nutritionists, specialist doctors did extensive research and formulated palatable millet recipes of the local traditional south and north Indian cuisines. They are often prescribed by doctors and dieticians to their patients for quick recovery and staying healthy. Due to the high proportion of healthy nutrients, they offer multifarious health benefits to curb several lifestyle ailments like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart ailments, cancers, kidney, liver ailments and more and enhance immunity levels. Super food Millets are rich in fibre, non-starchy polysaccharides, carbs, proteins, anti-oxidants, multiple vitamins and trace elements, highly alkaline and gluten free. Dayakar Rao, CEO, Nutrihub, ICAR-IIMR felicitated Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group for Apollo Health City being the first Hospital in India to proactively serve super food Millet to patients, today at Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills. This holds enormous significance, as UN has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Hyderabad, August 2022: The Indian Institute of Millets Research (ICAR-IIMR), a premier research institute for sorghum and other millets, located at Hyderabad, announced ICAR-IIMR Nutrihub’s initiative to popularise super food millet consumption by patients at Hospitals.
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