and has been cultivated extensively in Southeast Asia since ancient times for its nutritional and medicinal uses. Lately, due to the many health benefits of Job's tears grain and its high tolerance for different environmental conditions, it is now grown throughout the tropical, subtropical, and temperate zones (Corke et al., 2016;Zhu, 2017). The seeds are an excellent example of nutrient-dense food, defined as lowering the occurrence of cancer, stimulating the function of lung and spleen, and treating arthritis and diarrhoea, aid in immune system regulation, inflammation and other pharmacological conditions (Xu et al., 2017;Zhu, 2017). The grain is used mostly in the combination with rice in Northeast India; it is also brewed into both alcoholic
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