Oat (Latin name: Avena sativa L.) is a Gramineae plant, which is called Bromus and Wild Wheat in Compendium of Materia Medica. Oat is not easy to peel, so it is called skin oat, which is a food with low sugar, high nutrition and high energy. Oats are sweet and flat. Can benefit the spleen, nourish the heart and stop sweating. It has high nutritional value. Can be used for patients with spontaneous sweating due to physical weakness, night sweats or pulmonary tuberculosis. Fried clothes in soup, or "peeling steamed noodles to make cakes." Oats are cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, adaptable to soil and self-propagating. Oats are rich in dietary fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, facilitate defecation, have low calories, low glycemic index, and reduce blood fat and blood sugar. Oats are also one of the advanced supplements and indispensable dry food in poor areas.
1997 American FDA has recognized oats as functional food, which can lower cholesterol and stabilize blood sugar. Oat ranks fifth in the "Top Ten Healthy Foods in the World" selected by Time magazine in the United States, and is the only cereal on the list.
Grain is used for grinding or as feed, which has high nutritional value. Among the nine kinds of food that Chinese people eat daily, such as wheat, rice and corn, oats have the highest economic value, which is mainly manifested in its high nutritional, medical and feeding values. β -glucan in oats can slow down the increase of glucose content in blood and prevent obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Oats are rich in dietary fiber and can clean up intestinal garbage.
Soybean milk is a traditional drink of Han nationality in China, which was made by Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty. Soak soybeans in water, grind, filter and boil. Soymilk is nutritious and easy to digest and absorb. Different from western milk, soybean milk is a kind of food with national characteristics in China, which is very popular all over China.