We do not just mill millets. We transform them.
Conventional millet flour is cleaned and ground, which leaves the grain’s phytic acid intact, binding the calcium, iron and zinc. We soak and sprout every grain under controlled conditions before milling. As a result, phytic acid is reduced by 60 to 77 % and degrades into free inositol, measured at 460 mg per 100 g. We test lot by lot, and manufacture at a scale that suits both a formulation trial and a recurring container programme.
Three sprouted flours, and one balanced blend.
Available individually, or as the Balanced Triple Millet Blend, our flavour and nutrition optimised blend. We can also produce any blend of the three to your specification.
Sprouted finger millet
Ragi. Among the most calcium-dense cereal grains, and the one with no direct US-grown equivalent.
Specification
Sprouted sorghum
Jowar. High in dietary fibre, neutral flavour, the most familiar of the three to US formulators.
Specification
Sprouted pearl millet
Bajra. Iron-rich, with a fuller flavour that sprouting noticeably rounds off.
Specification
Balanced Triple Millet Blend
Formulated for flavour and nutrition. An excellent source of vitamin B6 and biotin, and a good source of dietary fibre at a 30 g serving.
Specification
Key facts about our product.
Where these flours are being used.
Gluten not detected at 2 mg/kg, low FODMAP ingredients and heavy metals well below limits, which means we can supply baby food, gluten-free and celiac-focused buyers as well as bakeries, brand owners, manufacturers and distributors.
If your application is not listed, ask anyway. Sprouted millet behaves differently enough from raw that the useful answer usually comes from a trial rather than a specification sheet.
Gluten-free bakery
Breads, crackers, cookies and blends. Gluten not detected at LOQ 2 mg/kg, on each grain individually. Sprouting lowers bitterness, which is what caps millet inclusion.
The gluten data →
Infant and toddler
Cereals, porridges and first foods. Single-category facility. Heavy metals below LOQ, with speciated inorganic arsenic being commissioned against FDA Closer to Zero.
Contaminant panel →
Breakfast and mixes
Pancake, waffle and dosa mixes. Water absorption shifts on sprouting, so hydration needs adjusting from a raw-flour baseline. We will supply matched material for the trial.
What sprouting changes →
Snacks and pasta
Extruded snacks, puffs, premium pasta. Two tonnes a day supports a development run through to recurring supply. Particle size 100 % through 1 mm.
Specifications →
Nutrition and beverage
Nutritional bases and blends. Finger millet is among the most calcium-dense cereal grains. Sorghum and millet flour are both Monash-rated low FODMAP.
The research →
The grains themselves
Finger millet, sorghum and pearl millet before sprouting. If your application is not listed here it is still worth asking: several of the tests we now hold exist because a buyer asked a question we could not answer.
Talk to a food technologist →Company background
HETC USA, Inc. is a US corporation and is responsible for all dealings. We handle import logistics, Foreign Supplier Verification Program obligations and tariff payments.
This is not a broker relationship, nor a third-party mill with us as an intermediary. Manufacturing is done by HETC Foods Pvt. Ltd. in Telangana, an affiliated company under common ownership.
Sriharsha Vavilala
Chief Executive Officer, HETC USA, Inc.Sriharsha runs HETC USA from New York and is the person you deal with on specification, pricing, samples and supply. He came to this from five years in Southeast Asian e-commerce, most recently as Chief Commercial Officer of edamama, the Philippines’ leading parenting e-commerce platform and a Forbes Asia 100 to Watch company. Before that he ran categories at Shopee Philippines, after three years in business strategy at Accenture.
Alongside running HETC USA, he is a strategic advisor to HETC Foods in India, so the person selling to you in the United States also sits inside production decisions at the plant.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, PGP 2017 · BITS Pilani, B.E. (Hons) Mechanical, 2015
HETC stands for Healthy, Easy To Cook. The company was founded by Sai Srinivas Vavilala and Srinivas Garimella, who spent twenty-five years building Vega Conveyors & Automation into an industrial automation business before exiting through a stake sale to Daifuku of Japan. The plant was built with that manufacturing discipline behind it, which is why the process controls look the way they do.
The plant is not new or untested. It has been running since inception on millets and sorghum, and it already produces a retail line in India under the Navdhan brand, so the process you are buying into is one in daily commercial production rather than a pilot.
The people behind it
HETC Foods Pvt. Ltd. is directed by its two founders, who built and exited an industrial automation business together before turning to food, and is advised by a standing scientific board.
Twenty-eight years across packaging, automation and electronic devices before food, including twenty-five building Vega Conveyors & Automation to an exit through a stake sale to Daifuku of Japan. Mechanical engineering, Andhra University.
At HETC he leads product and process innovation. The sprouting research, the millet nutrition work and the bioavailability programme report to him.
Co-founder. Non-executive chairman of Daifuku Intralogistics India, the Indian subsidiary of Daifuku, and president incumbent of the Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry, where he has worked on MSME growth and skill development.
He sits on the advisory boards of private companies and on the academic councils of universities and colleges.
Scientific advisory board
Three standing advisors in public health nutrition, medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
That range spans a bakery ordering a few bags through to a manufacturer taking recurring container loads. Pack formats are not fixed: we produce against contracts, so the pack follows the order rather than the other way round. Available as conventional supply, and as USDA Organic certified once NOP certification completes. Quality and documentation →
Tell us what you are formulating.
We will send samples, the full test report package, and a straight answer on whether we can supply what you need at the volume you need it.