Nowadays, both young people and middle-aged people pay more and more attention to health care, especially at the level of diet, and many people attach great importance to health care. There are many ways to keep healthy. A good diet in daily life has many benefits to physical and mental health. Oatmeal is what we often eat. Eating oatmeal has many benefits, which can not only help us lose weight, but also be easily digested and absorbed by others.

Nutritional components of oatmeal

1, lowering cholesterol and blood lipid

Oats contain a substance called oat gum, which is a soluble chemical fiber and a β-glucan. Many experimental data show that taking oatmeal can reduce total cholesterol, triglyceride and its β protein components in blood, and oatmeal can increase high-density protein cholesterol and reduce low-density protein cholesterol in blood. Because most of the body fat in oatmeal is unsaturated fat, the higher component is fatty acid. Unsaturated fat is good for lowering cholesterol in human body, and oatmeal also contains non-cassava starch sugar content, and substances with non-cassava starch sugar content are also good for lowering cholesterol, so taking oatmeal is good for lowering cholesterol.

Step 2 lose weight

Oatmeal is a low-fat food, which has a strong satiety. Oats also contain rich and colorful dietary fiber and dietary fiber, which is beneficial to absorb the waste in the stomach and excrete it to promote digestion. Therefore, oats are a kind of diet food, which helps to lose weight.

Step 3 lower blood sugar

Oatmeal is a food with low carbohydrate and high protein, so when taking oatmeal, the body's digestion and absorption of carbohydrates are very slow, so the blood sugar level is not easy to rise, so it is a food suitable for diabetics.

4. beauty beauty

Oats contain oat protein, oat β -glucan and oat oil, which can be used for beautifying.

Oat protein is decomposed into carbohydrates and peptide chains by enzymes in human body, and these substances have the purpose of hydrophilicity, which can digest and absorb water to help skin moisturize, improve skin dryness and replenish water.

Oat β -glucan is a kind of polymer material based on β-( 1-3) and β-( 1-4) glycosidic bonds and β-D- glucopyranose enterprises. This polymer also has hydrophilic property, which can promote the generation of collagen powder in collagen fiber, so oat β -glucan can make skin smooth, moist and moist.

Oatmeal contains substances that can inhibit the specificity of osteoclasts, and tryptophan will produce pigment after biochemical reaction of osteoclasts, so inhibiting the activity of tryptophanase will also inhibit the production of pigment and make it white.

Oats also contain many antioxidant substances, such as vanillic acid, syringic acid, protocatechuic acid, sodium salicylate, gallic acid, caffeic acid, coumaric acid, benzoic acid, ferulic acid, erucic acid, flavone, vitamin E, anthracene fluorobenzene, etc., all of which have antioxidant effects and can scavenge oxygen free radicals in human body, thus achieving the effect of delaying aging.