Eat right, eat millet

Eat millet based food and stay healthy. That’s the mantra FSSAI along with NABARD tried to promote in an unique food tasting cum cultural mela in Kolkata. Speaking to ANM News, deputy director of FSSAI, Sumesh Krishnan mentioned that prominent hotels and management institute prepared several interesting millet based food in their stalls.

 

The programme to promote millet, was carried out through special programmes throughout the day. ANM News saw a massive response and interest among local people with huge crowd gathering around the stalls in makeshift cultural centre. ANM News also tasted a few millet based dishes prepared by chefs of five star hotels. Krishnan admitted that a lot more need to be done in this international year of millet to educate the people about effectiveness of millet