THE IMPORTANCE OF FIBRE IN OUR FOOD:

Nowadays many of the breakfast cereals are projected in the market highlighting FIBRE content. Really it is a must in our daily food habit. Because fibre strengthens our bones, able to act like good immunity booster.
Dietary fiber is defined as plant cell component present as part of diet. Health benefits of dietary fiber are immense. Dietary fiber has the tendency to absorb water and to act as a bulking agent. It facilitates faster transition of food in the gastrointestinal tract, reduces the retention time of feces in the colon. It would bind bile salt and help in increasing the loss of cholesterol and act as a hypo cholestrelemic agent and therefore useful in dietary management of cardiovascular decease. Rice has the lowest percentage of dietary fiber than the other cereals. The dietary fiber of sorgam is 89.2%, pearl millet 122.3% and ragi has 113.5%, varagu has 115% fibre than rice.

STEP BY STEP TO HAVE GOOD FOOD HABITS:
               
             In this section, I want to peoples to know the rice items available in order to avoid the rice and wheat item. Because many people dont know even the names of the fantastic grains, which are very proteineous food. The issue for discussing these grains is to avoid rice, because white rice will slowly increase only carbohydrates in our body. White rice doesnt have specific proteins, minerals etc...
Hence Everyone try to change their food habit now atleast for our future generation. The initial step is to try to add any one of the whole grains in your weekly food. Instead using white rice in cooker just keep the whole grains listed below in cooker and serve hot as like as white rice.
The available grain rice are:
1. Thinai rice (fox tile millet rice)

2. Varagu rice (koda millet rice)

3. Saamai rice (little millet rice)

4. Cholam rice (jowar rice)

5. Kattu kambu rice ( bajra rice)

6. Kudirai vali rice (Barnyard millet rice)
 
so, in this section, i would like to introduce you how to cook THINAI RICE. Lots of dishes can be done using this grain.
The following are the some important links to check :


1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvcrs0xbxd0 , the above link is for thinai arisi adai.


2 .

Millet Rice (Thinai rice)

Thinai rice  (Millet/Foxtail Millet) Birds and bees like it. The hard working farmers in rural India like it. I liked it too. I am talking about the grain - millet
Millet + water + salt = a revelation!
Thinai rice is very tasty and once if you taste, you dont forget to leave. Especially it contains lot of protein, one of my friend is bodybuilder and he use to take regularly in order to gain the muscle.
Once he said me that it has good protein than protein mix available in the market....



Recipe:

1 cup millet ( foxtail millet)
2 cups water
¼ teaspoon of salt or to taste and one table spoon of oil for non sticky

    Just keep this millet with water in the cooker as like white rice. After the whistle comes, open the cooker and serve the rice with any kind of rasam, sambar and ever curd pickle.
its very delicious.
 

Korra Annam with Potato Kurma ~ Our Afternoon Meal Today 
3. Even thinai pongal can be done 
 
Using these millets have lot of advantage, some of them are

• They release sugar slowly – enough time for our body to produce required insulin. This is mainly because the coat of the grain is in tact and we take whole grain and not polished one.

• They are nutritious – well balanced at that – fibre,protein, iron etc.

• They require very little water and can grow in not-so-fertile lands also.
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• They are disease and pest resistent