Talk:Millet

message: I am not sure if i am right, so i am just putting the marathi names here:
*Finger Millet - Naachani (नाचणी)
*Pearl Millet - Baajari (बाजरी)
I am hoping for either verification or corrections to the above, after which i will move it to the main page.
- mskadu (Talk|Contribs|Blog) at: 21:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marathi names the Millet Family members

message: Regarding the recent edit:
I don't know much about this, but there seems to be some missing link here:
Palaeoethnobotanists in Canada, Korea, and Japan have found evidence of the cultivation of millet in the Korean Peninsula dating to the Middle Jeulmun pottery period (c. 3500-2000 B.C.). 
Why would a researcher in Canada or Japan find evidence in Korea?  Are we just talking about the nationalities of the researchers, and not where the discoveries are being made?
===Palaeoethnobotanical results or forensic results?===
:A sentence was recently added :
::Millet was consumed in northern Europe at least since the Iron Age, based upon forensic analysis of Haraldskær Woman found in Jutland, Denmark.
: PLease clarify about the method that yielded the above result. I doubt that forensic analysis had anything to do with this find. I think the results were obtained by palaeoethnobotany, which is sometimes also known as archaeobotany. Additionally, this statement requires a citation. Please clarify. 
--Also, let's expand the European crop histor section if possible. Anyone? ^^ Mumun 20:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palaeoethnobotanists 

message: :A sentence was recently added :
::Millet was consumed in northern Europe at least since the Iron Age, based upon forensic analysis of Haraldskær Woman found in Jutland, Denmark.
: PLease clarify about the method that yielded the above result. I doubt that forensic analysis had anything to do with this find. I think the results were obtained by palaeoethnobotany, which is sometimes also known as archaeobotany. Additionally, this statement requires a citation. Please clarify. 
--Also, let's expand the European crop histor section if possible. Anyone? ^^ Mumun 20:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Palaeoethnobotanical results or forensic results?

message: I have removed this text:
"Millet is the only grain that retains its alkaline nature when cooked, thus making it ideal for those allergic to wheat and gluten, or suffering from intestinal overgrowth of candidiasis."
as it appears to be a reference to the crank (unverified) Dr. Hay diet, and therefore not suitable material for Wikipedia. Millets are of course highly suitable for those with whreat allergy because they are not closely related to wheat. Mark Nesbitt 12:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Acid/Alkaline diet

message: I removed the following statement from the article, that was added by  on Oct 30 (with a subsequent spelling & grammar fix 3 edits later):
:"Be careful when eating millet, as too much consumption can cause pancreatic cancer and stomach ulcers."
If this can be substantiated with a citation then of course it can be added back in to the article, but it done not make sense to leave in the article, even with a "citation needed" tag on it. -- 12.106.111.10 19:02, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Be careful..."

message: A millet is also a small, individually run religious group in Ottoman Society, part of the reaya group.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.231.185.78 (talk) 01:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ottoman Society 

message: Are there any common dishes in these cuisines that survive today? Ham Pastrami (talk) 13:19, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern use of millet in China/Korea? 

message: The picture labeled "Millet fields in Annapurna-region of Nepal" covers up the table below it. Can someone fix it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.111.254.11 (talk) 20:26, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  picture 

message: A user had recently added the scientific names of different millet species to the lead.  This info already was in the body of the article, so I removed it.  I'm open to putting it back in the lead if others think that is important.LaTeeDa (talk) 12:12, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed scientific names from lead 

message: At an Ethiopian restaurant in Toronto popped corn was served with coffee at the end of the meal.  I asked what they used in Ethiopia since corn is from America.  After some consultation they said popped millet. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:01, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  fun fact 

message: I think it would be useful if the article made clear the distinction between millets and other grains, like wheat or barley, which are also grass seeds. Is "millet" simply a wastebasket category for less important domesticated grains? Or do wheat and barley have specific characteristics that disqualify them from being called millets. I notice the article currently states that "Corn and sorghum are occasionally counted as major millets", and I remember seeing somewhere else the statement that sorghum is not a "true millet," which suggests that there is in fact some definition that a grain may either meet or not meet. (I'm asking this question  because I only recently became aware that millets had an important role in human history, and I'd like to have a better sense of what a millet is).
71.183.62.189 (talk) 18:12, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What defines a "millet"? 

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message: Added a "Citation neded" tag on the Tao people making millet beer (or millet wine) claim. The Tao are the only indigenous group in Taiwan that doesn't have its own traditional alcoholic beverage, and moreover, they never grew millet, but instead taros. Millet wine is made by indigenous people from Taiwan proper, like the Amis or Atayal. However, I don't have any citations for this, as this knowledge came from interaction with locals and not a book or article. Goderich (talk) 15:53, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Millet beer 

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message: I edited this:
Millets have been important food staples in human history[citation needed], particularly in Asia and Africa.
to this
Millets have been consumed by humans for at least 7,000 years, and have been said to play "a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies".
with this source
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/23/460559052/millet-how-a-trendy-ancient-grain-turned-nomads-into-farmers
Enjoy!
Medmanschultzy (talk) 06:48, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line 4 opening paragraph cleaning and citation 

message: There no mention in this article about processing, or whether there is a whole and a polished kind available.  In the German Wikipedia, there is an article on Braunhirse or "Brown Millet" which is whole millet, not polished, just as whole wheat is not polished. Strangely there is no link to the German article on Braunhirse in English or in any other language.Contraverse (talk) 20:16, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page needs a section on processing. 

message: "and sowing rates are around 10 tons per hectare for dryland production"
This may be 10 Kilograms but nobody sows 10 tons, grain yields are also not 10 tons, so maybe forage yields could be 10 tons, but i suspect they meant kilograms 72.48.46.236 (talk) 11:14, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  sowing rate mistaken  

message: Potatoes are a common staple. Far more common than cassava. 94.255.135.102 (talk) 11:32, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Comparison with other major staple foods" should include potato 

message: @Chiswick Chap  If you are going to say this article does  cites/references in one particular way, please detail how you want them done and put that in this talk page.  Note  was used already in those paragraphs and elsewhere in the article.  Note journal articles can be long and complex so sometimes specific page numbers are useful.  I'm guessing you want for specific page numbers to use the ref=name within the  template then use #name|author date, page numbers with the ref to cite different page numbers. Erp (talk) 20:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: For journal papers (like the two in the West Africa subsection), there is no need to use subranges at all: most papers are not so long that it's at all difficult to locate and verify claims. For books, when just one chapter or less is cited, the same basically applies, a ref can just cite a page range and it can likely cover the uses made of that chapter. When a book is cited in many places, then we can most conveniently use the sfn template to indicate each separate subrange. That is far more readable than cluttering up the main text with page numbers as well as the inevitable ref numbers, which frankly looks incredibly technical and untidy. I've looked through the article and rp was only in use twice, so I've removed it; it was definitely not the established style in the article, nor has it been used in the other major cereal articles. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:38, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  References