Millet, monocotyledonous Gramineae. Its morphological characteristics are similar to those of millet, and its seeds are yellow, white, red and purple. After the seed is shelled, it becomes millet, which is golden yellow and sticky, also called yellow rice and soft rice.

Yangyuan and Yuxian in Zhangjiakou, Guangling in Datong, Shanxi and Yingxian in Shuozhou are all very important foods, which are eaten locally at noon every day, and other areas in North China are also eaten as rice cake noodles.

Some cities and counties along the Great Wall of Inner Mongolia, especially Erdos, Wuhai and Jining, are also used to make yellow cakes and fried cakes. In northern Shaanxi, Ordos, Wuhai and other places, millet is often used to brew rice wine, which is one of the important food crops in the north.

Xiaomi food processing

The content of carbohydrates in millet is very high, and a large amount of reducing sugar can be produced after hydrolysis, which can be used to make syrup and maltose. The husk of millet seeds has many colors, such as brown (black) red, white, yellow and gray. After chemical treatment, various pigments can be extracted, which is a natural pigment additive in food industry.

Millet is also a good raw material for brewing wine. Using millet to make wine is rich and mellow. Yanglang wine produced in Yanglang Township, Guyuan County, Ningxia is brewed with millet.

Millet can be used to make drinks. Yellow rice wine commonly used in traditional medicine in China is made of millet. It contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins, and has high nutritional and medicinal value.

According to the determination, yellow rice wine contains 14 amino acids, the total acid content is1.24 ~1.5g/100 ml, and the total sugar content is 21.5 ~124 ug//kloc. If the traditional production technology of yellow rice wine is scientifically improved, it can be made into a series of nutritional and health drinks of yellow rice wine.