What is Proso Millet?
Proso Millet also known as common millet, broom corn, hog millet or white millet is a type of millet plant. [1]
Unlike the foxtail millet, the wild ancestor of the proso millet has not yet been satisfactorily identified. Zohary and Hopf note that weedy forms of this grain are found in central Asia, covering a widespread area from the Caspian Sea east to Xinjiang and Mongolia, and speculate that these semi-arid areas may harbor "genuinely wild miliaceum forms." They also mention that this millet has been reportedly found in Neolithic sites in Georgia (dated to the fifth and fourth millenia BC), as well as excavated Yangshao culture farming villages east in China. Proso millet appears to have reached Europe not long after its appearance in Georgia, first appearing in east and central Europe; however, the grain needed a few thousand more years to cross into Italy, Greece, and Iran, and the earliest evidence for its cultivation in the Near East is a find in the ruins of Nimrud, Iraq dated to about 700 BC. [1]
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| Ingredient added | UPC Food Search | January 1, 2009 @ 2:14 AM |
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