Oats are called wild wheat and brome in Compendium of Materia Medica, but the oatmeal we usually eat is flat after hulling oats. Cooked oats can be sticky. There is a saying that the thicker the cooked oats are, the better the health care effect will be, because the cooked oats will be sticky because they contain β -glucan

Many people say that you can eat oats if you want to lose weight. People with high blood pressure, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia can also eat oats. Is that really the case? What are the specific effects and functions of oats?

Efficacy and function of oats

1, reducing cholesterol and blood lipid.

Oats contain a substance called oat gum, which is a soluble fiber and a β-glucan. Many experimental data show that eating oats can reduce the contents of total cholesterol, triglyceride and β-lipoprotein in blood, and oats can increase the high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and reduce the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in blood, because most of the fats in oats are unsaturated fatty acids and the content of linoleic acid is high. Unsaturated fatty acids help to reduce the cholesterol content in human body, and

Step 2 lose weight

Oat is a low-calorie food, and eating oats has a strong satiety. Oats are also rich in dietary fiber, which helps to absorb the waste in the intestine and excrete it, thus promoting defecation. Therefore, oatmeal is a kind of diet food, which has the effect of helping to lose weight.

Step 3 lower blood sugar

Oat is a food with low carbohydrate and high protein. Therefore, eating oats slows down the digestion of carbohydrates, and blood sugar is not easy to rise. It is a kind of food suitable for diabetics.

4. Beautiful and beautiful

Oats contain oat protein, oat β-glucan, oat oil and other substances, which can be beauty beauty.

Oat protein is decomposed into amino acids and peptide chains by enzymes in human body. These substances have hydrophilic effect, which can absorb moisture to help skin lock water, improve skin dryness and keep skin moist.

Oat β -glucan is combined with β-D- glucopyranose unit through β-( 1-3) and β-( 1-4) glycosidic bonds, which is also hydrophilic and can promote the synthesis of collagen in fiber cells, so oat β -glucan can make skin smooth and moist.

Oats contain substances that can inhibit the activity of tyrosinase, and tyrosine forms melanin after the biochemical reaction of tyrosinase, so inhibiting the activity of tyrosinase also inhibits the formation of melanin, which can make the skin white.

Oats also contain many antioxidant substances, such as vanillic acid, syringic acid, protocatechuic acid, salicylic acid, gallic acid, caffeic acid, coumaric acid, benzoic acid, ferulic acid, erucic acid, flavonoids, vitamin E, oat anthracamide and so on. These substances have antioxidant effect, which can remove free radicals in human body, thus achieving anti-aging effect.