Nowadays, consumer need products with fewer synthetic additives but increased quality and shelf-life. As a result there has been growing interest in natural antioxidant and antimicrobial. Due to safety concerns, there is an increasing trend among food scientists to replace these synthetic antioxidants and antimicrobial with natural and organic one which in general supposed to be safer. Investigating for cheap and abundant natural sources is attracting worldwide interest since the trend of consumers and many health related industries tends to shift preferences to natural sources.Thus, the use...

Pearl millet is a widely grown rain fed cereal crop in the arid and semiarid regions of Africa and southern Asia. Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is the most important crop in the drier parts of semi-arid tropics and accounts for almost half of the global production of the millet species from amongst different species of millets cultivated. As general estimate, global millet production is broken down into pearl millet (50%) and other millets 50%. In other continents it is grown under intensive cultivation as a forage crop. Pearl millet is a crop of hot and dry climates, and can be grown in...