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Foxtail millet

Setaria italicaAlso called Setaria italica, green foxtail, Italian millet and German millet

Foxtail millet is a kind of millet. Cooks use its seeds as a cereal grain.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Seed
Family
Poaceae
Top country
Taiwan
Foxtail millet, whole

Photo: LiCheng Shih · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use foxtail millet

Preparing it

The thin hull can be removed by threshing.

Around the world

Where foxtail millet is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use foxtail millet. Here is where they come from.

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list foxtail millet among their ingredients.

Origins

First cultivated
in China, about -6500~/-5500

  1. About 4,000 BCE · China

    Evidence of cultivation outside its native distribution dates to around 4000 BC in the Middle Yangtze region.

  2. About -3620~/-3370 · Russia

    Foxtail millet evidence in East Siberia dates to around 3620–3370 BC.

  3. About 3,360 BCE · South Korea

    A southern Korean site provides direct evidence of foxtail millet around 3360 BC.

  4. About 2,800 BCE · Taiwan

    Foxtail millet reached Taiwan around 2800 BC.

  5. About 2,300 BCE · Thailand

    A site in central Thailand provides evidence of foxtail millet around 2300 BC.

  6. About 600 BCE · Türkiye

    Evidence of cultivation at Tille Hoyuk dates to about 600 BC.

On the table

Dishes made with foxtail millet

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Cinavu

    Taiwan

  • Kinper

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include foxtail millet.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: foxtail millet in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
millet

Around the world

What foxtail millet is called

Names in 95 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Setaria italica · Moha

  • French

    Setaria italica · Millet d'Italie · Sétaire d'Italie · Millet des oiseaux

  • Italian

    Setaria italica · Panico

  • Portuguese

    Setaria italica · painço

  • German

    Kolbenhirse · Setaria italica

  • Dutch

    Setaria italica

  • Russian

    Могар · Итальянское просо · Щетинник итальянский · Гоми

  • Polish

    włośnica ber · Ber · Proso włoskie · Czumiza

  • Arabic

    ذيل الثعلب الإيطالي

  • Persian

    ارزن دم‌روباهی

  • Hindi

    कँगनी · टांगुन · कंगनी · फॉक्स्टेल मिलेट

  • Bangla

    কাউন · কাওন · কাঙ্গুই · কাঙ্গু

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  • Afrikaans

    Boermanna · Setaria italica

  • Albanian

    Setaria italica

  • ami

    Hafay · Setaria italica

  • Ancient Greek

    ἕλυμος

  • Aragonese

    Setaria italica

  • Armenian

    Մոգար

  • Assamese

    কণী ধান

  • Asturian

    Setaria italica · Miyu menor

  • Basque

    Artatxiki iletsu · Setaria italica

  • Belarusian

    Магар · Setaria italica · Мяшэй італьянскі · Проса італьянскае

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    магар · італьянскае проса

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Setaria italica

  • Bulgarian

    Setaria italica

  • Cantonese

    狗尾粟

  • Catalan

    Setaria italica · Mill italià

  • cdo

    Kēng-muōi-dăi · Setaria italica

  • Cebuano

    Setaria italica

  • Chinese

    小米 · 粱 · 禾 · 粟

  • Croatian

    Klipasti muhar · ljepiguz, proha talijanska · Setaria italica

  • Czech

    bér italský · Setaria italica

  • Danish

    Kolbehirse · Setaria italica

  • Egyptian Arabic

    ذيل الثعلب الايطالى

  • Esperanto

    Setaria italica

  • Estonian

    itaalia kukeleib · Setaria italica

  • Extremaduran

    Setaria italica

  • Finnish

    italianpantaheinä · Setaria italica · Italianpantaheinä · tähkähirssi

  • Galician

    Paínzo · Setaria italica

  • Georgian

    ღომი · Setaria italica

  • Haitian Creole

    pitimi · Setaria italica

  • Hungarian

    mohar · rókafarkú köles · Setaria italica

  • Ido

    Setaria italica

  • Indonesian

    Juwawut · Jewawut · Setaria italica

  • Interlingua

    Setaria italica

  • Interlingue

    Setaria italica

  • Irish

    Setaria italica

  • Japanese

    アワ · 粱 · 粟 · もち粟

  • Javanese

    Juwawut · Setaria italica

  • Kabardian

    Ашэху

  • Kannada

    ನವಣೆ

  • Kashmiri

    پِنگہٕ

  • Kazakh

    Қонақ

  • Kinyarwanda

    Setariya · Setaria italica

  • Korean

    조 · 좁쌀

  • Kurdish

    Genimok · Setaria italica

  • Kyrgyz

    Koнoк

  • Latin

    Setaria italica

  • Latvian

    Itālijas sarene · Setaria italica

  • Literary Chinese

    粱

  • Lithuanian

    Italinė šerytė · Setaria italica

  • Madurese

    Jhâbâ (tombuwân) · Setaria italica

  • Malay

    Jawawut · Setaria italica

  • Malayalam

    തിന · Foxtail millet

  • Manchu

    ᠵᡝ

  • Marathi

    राळा तांदूळ

  • Mingrelian

    ღუმუ

  • Nepali

    कागुनी

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    stor busthirse · storbusthirse · kolbehirse · Setaria italica

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    stor busthirse · storbusthirse · Setaria italica

  • Occitan

    Setaria italica

  • Ossetic

    Гуылм

  • Punjabi

    ਫੌਕਸਟੇਲ ਬਾਜਰੇ

  • pwn

    vaqu · Setaria italica

  • Quechua

    Siwuk · Sitariya italika · Muha · Moha

  • Romanian

    Setaria italica

  • Sanskrit

    प्रियङ्गुः

  • Simplified Chinese

    小米

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    小米

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    小米

  • Slovenian

    laški muhvič · Setaria italica · bar

  • Sundanese

    Kunyit · Setaria italica

  • Swedish

    kolvhirs · Setaria italica

  • szy

    habay · Setaria italica

  • Tajik

    Қӯноқ

  • Tamil

    தினை

  • Taroko

    Macu · Setaria italica

  • tay

    trakis · Setaria italica

  • Telugu

    కొఱ్ఱలు · సెటేరియా ఇటాలికా · కొర్రలు

  • Thai

    ข้าวฟ่างหางหมา

  • Traditional Chinese

    小米

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    小米

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    小米 · 粱

  • Ukrainian

    Мишій італійський · Setaria italica · Могар

  • Upper Sorbian

    Zornjaty włosanc · Bor · Setaria italica

  • Uzbek

    Mogar · oʻsimlik

  • Vietnamese

    Setaria italica

  • Volapük

    Setaria italica

  • Waray

    Setaria italica

  • Welsh

    Cibogwellt yr Eidal · Setaria italica

  • Western Panjabi

    کنگنی

  • Wu Chinese

    小米

  • Zhuang

    Haeuxfiengj · Setaria italica

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q161211

Photos

Photo: LiCheng Shih · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons