Integrating Traditional Foods and Millets into Modern Diets for Sustainable Health, Wellbeing, and Food Security

Naveen Chandra Nautiyal; Lata Arya; Prabhu Dayal Nautiyal

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.65080

Integrating Traditional Foods and Millets into Modern Diets for Sustainable Health, Wellbeing, and Food Security

Author(s)	Naveen Chandra Nautiyal, Dr. Lata Arya, Prabhu Dayal Nautiyal
Country	India
Abstract	Modern eating habits have shifted towards processed and refined foods, contributing to an increasing rate of obesity, type-II diabetes and deficiencies in micronutrient. Millets and traditional foods which were once staple of Indians diets are nutrient rich and climate-resilient crops that require minimal agricultural inputs and water. In spite of their nutritional and environmental strength, consumption of millets has declined because of the Green Revolution’s emphasis on rice and wheat, increasing urbanization, and lack of consumer awareness. This paper review evidence from research in nutrition, clinical trials and policy reports to understand the role of millets in modern diet and food systems. Millets like sorghum, pearl millet and finger millets are high in dietary fibre, iron, calcium, essential amino acids and antioxidants which contribute to making them low in glycemic index and gluten free – properties that provide several health benefits like blood glucose regulation, gut health, and micronutrients status. Epidemiological and intervention studies have shown that consumption of millets regularly, reduces the risk of type-II diabetes, hypertension and anemia. Agroecologically, millets are low input crops with minimal irrigation, making them suitable for climatic-stress like drought, heat, and other resource limited areas compared to other staple crops. The paper emphasizes three strategies for millet promotion: the development of value added products, raising awareness and promoting nutritional education to increase demand and government support through improved processing, market access, and inclusion in public food programs. With increasing global interest in millets, there is great opportunity to promote millets. Integration of millets into diets can improve health and support food security. Gaining these advantages requires coordinated actions across agriculture, industry, public health and policies to ensure fair, and easy access. This paper shows contribution of millets to sustainable health and food security when included in regular diets.
Keywords	Millets, traditional foods, sustainable health, food security, climate resilience
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-12-30
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.65080

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