Kurakkan (Eleucinecoracana) Health by Dr Harold Gunatillake Health writer Sri Lankan traditional staple food items consumed by the locals are mainly made of rice flour, wheat flour and occasionally kurakkan flour. The latter is used mainly to make pittu, roti and string hoppers (indiappams). There are doubts about the goodness of kurakkan, and as a result wheat and rice flour are more popular and palatable, used on a daily basis for items cooked mostly for breakfast and dinner Millet seed or kurakkan is most often associated as the main ingredient in bird seed mixtures in most countries.In Sri Lanka it is used especially among the rural population as a main ingredient in most preparations. Presently, in Sri Lanka one could buy kurakkan biscuits and crackers manufactured by the biscuit companies. Presently, it is grown in Anuradapura, Monoragala, Hambantota, Kegalle, Ratnapura, Nuwaraliya, Ampara, Badulla, and Jaffna districts. Most farmers favour irrigating transplanted kurakkan ...