Millet porridge is a kind of healthy food, which can be boiled alone or added with red dates, red beans, sweet potatoes, lotus seeds and lilies to make nutrition porridge with different flavors. Millet can be made into cakes by grinding into powder, which is delicious. Compendium of Materia Medica says that Xiaomi "cures nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, benefits dantian, supplements deficiency and stimulates appetite."

Germinated millet, like malt, contains a lot of enzymes. It is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the function of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion.

It should be noted that the nutritional value of millet in protein is not better than that of rice, because the amino acid composition of millet protein is not ideal, lysine is too low, and leucine is too high, so it is impossible for both pregnant women and the elderly to take millet as their staple food, so we should pay attention to collocation to avoid the lack of other nutrients.