Not the same.

One, different methods of consumption:

1, yellow grain called yellow grain, is a kind of plant feed, mainly used to feed birds.

2, millet, the original name: corn. Corn is the result of peeling the grain, the grain is a cereal plant, a kind of grass, corn has a high nutritional value, rich in protein and fat and vitamins, it is not only for food, medicine has to clear heat, thirst, nourishing Yin, replenish the spleen, kidney and intestines and stomach, facilitating urination, treatment of diarrhea and other efficacy, and can be brewed.

3, millet, is the main grain and brewing crops in ancient China, listed as one of the five grains. Millet is unique to China's northern regions of the varieties, and the quality of the northern part of Shanxi Province when the best. Local people will be made of corn flour, then made of fried cake, whether it is the New Year's festivals, or men and women get married, are to use "fried cake" to treat friends and relatives and guests, thus becoming the most distinctive local traditional flavor food.

Two, different viscosity

Millet viscosity, very small, so only suitable for making rice porridge, or cooking dry rice. But because of the strong viscosity of millet, you can cook porridge can also be cooked with other rice and dry rice, the most important thing is that millet flour can be done rice cakes, while millet flour milled due to the viscosity is not strong, can only be steamed head or do millet egg cake.

Three, different particle sizes

Millet particles to be a little smaller, and millet particles to be a little larger than millet. Because both are yellow round rice, so many people have been corn as sticky millet to eat. Just as so many people have been eating black kidney beans as black beans.

Four, called different:

1, "millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) belongs to the graminae millet genus (Panicum miliaceum), also known as millet, millet, grain sacrifice and rice. There are soft millets and hard millets. Soft millets, also known as millet, soft millets milled rice called soft rice, the famous Shaanxi rice wine is made with this rice. Soft rice pressed into the surface can be made cake, in northern Shaanxi to do fried cake, date cake are using this surface. Hard rice is crushed into rice and called yellow rice."

2, "rhubarb rice in English. alias: millet, soft yellow rice. Generally divided into two types, with hairy culms, partial spikes, seeds sticky for millet; culms hairless, scattered spikes, seeds do not stick for millet."

3. "Millet, cereal, family Gramineae. Scientific name: Setaria italica. millet, also known as corn, is the product of hulling the grain."

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Millet

Baidu Encyclopedia --Millet (annual herb)

Baidu Encyclopedia -- Yellow Rice