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Table 5 Compounds and antioxidant properties of pearl and finger millets

From: The nutritional use of millet grain for food and feed: a review

Millet type

Active compounds

Antioxidant property

References

Finger millet

Phenolic acids

Free radical scavenging, anti-inflammatory activity

[57]

Finger millet

Phenolic compounds

High reducing power (reduction of the ferricyanide to ferrocyanide)

[70]

Pearl millet

   

Finger millet

Flavonoids

inhibition of α-glucosidase and α-amylase activities

Reduction of postprandial hyperglycemia

[71]

Finger millet

Carotenoid

Quenching of single oxygen and

free radicals

[72]

Pearl millet

Phenolic acids

Metal chelating activity

[73]

Pearl millet

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