Wheat germ and oats are both natural and nutritious cereal ingredients, which play a very important role in losing weight, relaxing bowels and controlling sugar after meals. Although the functions of these two products are very similar, there are qualitative differences in nutritional value.

Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Wheat germ is very beneficial to nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, stopping diarrhea, controlling sugar and strengthening the stomach". The research results of 20 1 1 show that increasing the intake of coarse grains such as wheat germ and oats can obviously improve constipation and other problems. Among them, wheat germ is rich in mineral elements "iron, potassium, magnesium and zinc", which is also very helpful for relaxing bowels and nourishing the stomach.

Wheat germ: Wheat germ is the essence extracted in the process of wheat processing into flour, but its nutrition accounts for 97% of the whole wheat grain. It is rich in dietary fiber, protein, vitamin E, B vitamins and mineral elements, and does not contain fatty acids, wheat brass, folic acid, linoleic acid, glutathione and lecithin. It has extremely high nutritional value and medicinal value.

Oats: Oats are made of rolled oats and are rich in dietary fiber, protein, vitamin B 1, B2, E, folic acid and linoleic acid. Among them, β -glucan is the most recommended health component in oats, and long-term consumption can improve constipation and other problems.

Compared with dietary fiber, 100g wheat germ contains 1 1. 1g dietary fiber; 100g oatmeal contains 13.2g dietary fiber.

From the comparison of calories and carbohydrates: per100g oat: the calories are about 338kcal, and the carbohydrates are about 77.4g.. Every100g of wheat germ: about 350 kilocalories, about 27.5g of water.

Compared with protein, the fat content of wheat germ is higher than that of oat 100g, but the fat of wheat germ belongs to high-quality unsaturated fatty acids. The protein content of 100g wheat germ is about 38.8g；; The protein content of 100g oats is only 15g.

Compared with the glycemic index, the glycemic index of 100g wheat germ is 25; 100g The GI of oatmeal is 65. Therefore, the glycemic index of wheat germ is much lower than that of oats, which is more beneficial to people who need to control sugar.

To sum up, although wheat germ is not as good as oatmeal in individual nutritional components, from the perspective of health care, wheat germ is much better than oatmeal in both edible and medicinal effects, which is more conducive to health care.