
Consumers of these days prefer unhealthy over-fried fast foods and junk foods to healthy cereals and legumes. Even with cereals, in a country like ours where Rice is a compulsion in human feed, millet, despite possessing excellent nutrient content and health benefits remains overshadowed by the major staple crop Rice. Human’s reliance on only a few species of crops has caused disadvantage to both environment and human health. Now its time to realize the importance of nutritious but Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) in our daily diet. NUS are underexplored and can be called ‘hidden treasures’that offer tremendous opportunities for fighting poverty, hunger and malnutrition. So, let’s add up a few healthy and tasty future smart food in our daily diet.