Millet contains more protein, fat, dietary fiber, sugar, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, niacin, as well as rich tryptophan and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. It has high nutritional value and therapeutic and health-care effects.

It has the effects of soothing the mind and promoting sleep, nourishing yin and blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenishing deficiency, harmonizing the kidneys, removing heat and detoxifying. It mainly treats spleen and stomach deficiency and heat, nausea and vomiting, thirst and diarrhea.

Do not eat with apricots as it will cause vomiting. Eating it with rice as porridge can cure weak spleen and stomach and body weight loss. Eating it with brown sugar can replenish blood, and eating it with eggs is beneficial to the absorption of protein.

High-quality millet is milky white, yellow or golden yellow, and full of luster. There is little broken rice, no insects or impurities, it smells fresh and tastes slightly sweet. Pick up a few grains of millet, dip some water in your palms and rub them together. If the color of millet dyed with turmeric powder changes from yellow to gray, yellow powder will remain in your palms. Do not buy or eat it.