What crops does millet refer to?

Millet is a Gramineae crop, and it is also an annual cultivated millet herb.

Millet is a gramineous crop, also known as glutinous rice. Millet originated in northern China and has been planted since prehistoric times. It has become people's staple food since the Shang Dynasty. Therefore, in ancient China, the country was called the country, the community meant the land, and millet meant the grain, which shows the important position of millet in ancient people's lives.

Millet has the advantages of drought resistance, heat resistance, insect resistance and short growth period, and is one of the main food crops in the arid areas of northern China. Now it is mainly planted in the northeast and northwest of Fengkou in North China.

Xiaomi is panicum miliaceum. Culms are stout, erect, solitary or few clustered, 60- 120 cm tall, sometimes branched, densely bearded at nodes, and warty at nodes. Leaf sheaths are loose and have warty hairs; The length of ligule is about 65438±0mm, and the length of cilia is about 2 mm. Leaf blade linear-lanceolate, length 10-30 cm, width 1.5 cm, margin pilose or glabrous.

Millet is a small miscellaneous grain, weighing 3-8 grams per thousand grains. The processed rice is also rich in nutrition, including protein 9.6%, fat 0.9%, carbohydrate 76.3%, crude fiber 1.0%, and rich in minerals and vitamins.

There are many ways to eat millet. When it is ground into rice, it can be called "small rice", rice and porridge, when it is ground into flour, it can be called "millet flour", and it can be used as cakes or other snacks. Mongolians in China often cook fried rice with millet. The professional standard of millet is grading by bulk density, and millet has three grades.