Trial reportNutrients2018
Traditional Malian Solid Foods Made from Sorghum and Millet Have Markedly Slower Gastric Emptying than Rice, Potato, or Pasta.
Trial report in Nutrients, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Definition of the traditional African diet: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of sorghum flour-containing pasta on postprandial glycemia, appetite and energy intake in healthy individuals.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Trial
- Activation of gastrointestinal ileal brake response with dietary slowly digestible carbohydrates, with no observed effect on subjective appetite, in an acute randomized, double-blind, crossover trial.European journal of nutrition · 2022Trial
- Role of habitual diet in metabolic fuel utilization and metabolic flexibility, evidence in Kenyan and U.S. cohorts.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Stunted African toddlers digest and obtain energy from energy-dense thick sorghum porridge.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Africa's contribution to global sustainable and healthy diets: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Sorghum and health: An overview of potential protective health effects.Journal of food science · 2024Review
- Millets as superfoods: Let thy cereal be thy medicine.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Large-Scale Non-Targeted Metabolomics Reveals Antioxidant, Nutraceutical and Therapeutic Potentials of Sorghum.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Significance of African Diets in Biotherapeutic Modulation of the Gut Microbiome.Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2021Review
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- The Impact of Germination on Sorghum Nutraceutical Properties.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Sorghum Pasta and Noodles: Technological and Nutritional Aspects.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2020Review
- The Glucose-Lowering Effect of Foxtail Millet in Subjects with Impaired Glucose Tolerance: A Self-Controlled Clinical Trial.Nutrients · 2018Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
From anecdotal evidence that traditional African sorghum and millet foods are filling and provide sustained energy, we hypothesized that gastric emptying rates of sorghum and millet foods are slow, particularly compared to non-traditional starchy foods (white rice, potato, wheat pasta). A human trial to study gastric emptying of staple foods eaten in Bamako, Mali was conducted using a carbon-13 (
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