{"id":30704,"date":"2024-11-08T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T05:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30704"},"modified":"2025-04-15T22:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:34:45","slug":"bran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bran\/","title":{"rendered":"Bran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bran:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>edible broken seed coat<\/strong>, or protective outer layer, of wheat, rye, or other cereal grains, separated from the kernel.<\/li>\n<li>In flour processing, the coarse chaff, or bran, is removed from the ground kernels by sifting or bolting in a rotating, meshed, cylindrical frame.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It provides dietary fiber and many different bioactive substances, including phenolic compounds, which can exert a beneficial effect on human health.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Removing the bran from millets results in <strong>decreasing the protein, dietary fibre<\/strong>, fat, mineral and phytate content in them while increasing the carbohydrates and amylose content.<\/li>\n<li>Dehusked millets are nutritious and should be promoted in Indian diets to improve diet quality, debranned millets are nutritionally inferior, can increase the glycemic load of Indian diets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are Millets?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Millets are a highly varied <strong>group of small-seeded grasses<\/strong>, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This crop is favoured due to its <strong>productivity and short growing season<\/strong> under dry, high-temperature conditions (hardy and drought-resistant crops).<\/li>\n<li>Millets are a <strong>powerhouse of nutrients<\/strong>, which score over rice and wheat in terms of minerals, vitamins, and dietary fibre content, as well as amino acid profile.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Though rich in both iron and zinc, wheat\u2019s protein content comprises glutens, known to trigger gastrointestinal and autoimmune disorders in many people.<\/li>\n<li>Millets are high in minerals such as <strong>calcium, iron, phosphorus, and potassium<\/strong>, and they are an excellent source of phyto-chemicals such as phenolic compounds when compared to other major cereals (rice, wheat, maize),<\/li>\n<li>Millets provide a range of health benefits such as antiaging<strong>, anticarcinogenic, anti-atherosclerogenic, antibacterial<\/strong>, and antioxidant effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is protein?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the workhorse in biological systems facilitating most of biological processes in a cell, including gene expression, cell growth, proliferation, nutrient uptake, intercellular communication and apoptosis<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/keep-the-bran-on-millets-to-retain-health-benefits-study\/article68841361.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Keep the bran on millets to retain health benefits: study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bran is the edible broken seed coat, or protective outer layer, of wheat, rye, or other cereal grains, separated from the kernel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}