Oats (Latin scientific name: Avena sativa? L) Gramineae, 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.
Nutritional value:
Oat contains 15.6% crude protein, 8.5% fat, heat released by starch, phosphorus, iron, calcium and other elements. Compared with the other eight cereals, oats are among the best. The water-soluble dietary fiber in oats is 4.7 times and 7.7 times that of wheat and corn, respectively.
Oats are rich in B vitamins, nicotinic acid, folic acid and pantothenic acid, especially vitamin E, which is as high as 15 mg per 100 g oat flour. In addition, oat flour also contains saponins (the main component of ginseng) which are lacking in cereal. Protein has a comprehensive amino acid composition, with the highest content of eight essential amino acids, especially the lysine content of 0.68 g. ..
The porridge cooked with oatmeal is rich in magnesium and vitamin B 1, and also contains phosphorus, potassium, iron, pantothenic acid, copper and fiber, which can lower cholesterol and has auxiliary effects on fatty liver, diabetes and constipation. Uncooked oat bran is rich in magnesium, vitamin B 1, phosphorus and potassium, as well as iron, zinc, folic acid, pantothenic acid and copper. Oatmeal can improve blood circulation and promote wound healing.
The medical value and health care function of oats in lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, preventing and treating colorectal cancer and heart disease have been recognized by medical circles at home and abroad.
It also has the same obvious curative effect on secondary hyperlipidemia caused by liver and nephropathy, diabetes and fatty liver. Eating oatmeal for a long time is beneficial to the control of diabetes and obesity.