Oats are usually eaten by adding them to mixed foods, muffins, liqueur and drinks with mixed breakfast of cereal and milk, and often added to soup and meat porridge, and can also be used to make cakes, jellies, beer and drinks. Oat bran can be eaten alone, such as in boiled swallow cakes, cakes and bread, or together with other foods. [6]

1. Folk eating method: People in northwest Shanxi have explored a variety of ways to eat oats in their long-term life practice.

Take Wuzhai as an example, it can be pushed into the "cat's nest" like shavings on the panel; Can grow into a "fish fish"; Mix the cooked yam mud and oat flour to make "yam cake"; Stir-fry the cooked yam and oats into small pieces to make a "five-grain base"; Grinding raw yam eggs into paste and hanging them into broken "eggs"; Millet porridge boiled fish "fish drill sand"; The "vegetable corner" of wild vegetables wrapped in oats; More directly, fried oats, such as "fried noodles" with sugar or salt, have their own flavors and can never get tired of eating them. Oat food is often used to entertain guests and give them as gifts.

Second, how to eat oatmeal:

In recent years, oats can be processed into canned malt, biscuits, oatmeal and cakes, and the edible path is becoming wider and wider. Oats not only have a good appetite, but also have medical and health care functions, and are used for lactation, infant stunting and the elderly. Oats are high in protein and low in sugar, which is an excellent food for diabetics. There is more linoleic acid in fat, which can reduce the accumulation of cholesterol in cardiovascular system and reduce blood lipid. After eating 100g oatmeal every day, cholesterol, B lipoprotein, triglyceride and body weight are obviously reduced, and it has the same obvious curative effect on secondary hyperlipidemia caused by liver, kidney disease and diabetes. The eating method of oatmeal is as follows:

1. Cooking-free eating method: pour 30-50g oatmeal into a container, add 200ml of boiling water, stir thoroughly, and serve after 3 minutes. You should also add ingredients such as milk, nuts and juice according to your own taste, and enjoy oatmeal with different tastes.

2. Microwave cooking method: pour 30-50g oatmeal into a special vessel for microwave oven, add a glass of water or milk, stir well, and cook in microwave oven at high temperature for one minute. According to personal preference, the dilution of oatmeal can be adjusted by increasing or decreasing the amount of water.

fruit cup

Put 2 tablespoons of instant oatmeal and 1 tablespoon of black sesame powder into a bowl, add diced apple and diced banana, add appropriate amount of boiling water and stir well, then put it in a microwave oven for 3 minutes, then take it out and drop two drops of olive oil.

Nutrition comments: There is not much vitamin C in apples and bananas, so don't worry about heating loss. But potassium, magnesium, fructose and soluble dietary fiber are more. Together with oats, it is more conducive to cardiovascular health care, stabilizing blood sugar and lowering blood cholesterol. This kind of porridge is very suitable for eating in winter morning, warming the stomach and refreshing. [7]

Milk-flavored custard

Cut 10g cheese into fine powder, mix it with 2 tablespoons oatmeal (ground with oatmeal), 1 beaten egg liquid and 1 bag of milk, and pour it into a covered bowl or seal it with high-quality plastic wrap. After the steamer is inflated, steam for 10- 15 minutes.

Nutrition Comments: If there are young children or frail old people at home, you can grind oats into powder and make egg soup to eat together. Not only will nutrition not be lost, but it will be better absorbed. Besides high-quality protein, lecithin and lutein, eggs also contain vitamin D, which can help the absorption of calcium in milk and cheese. This dish is especially good for supplementing calcium.

Dried fruit bee cake

Mix oats, corn flour, soybeans, raisins and medlar, add yeast powder and mix well, and add water to form a slightly soft dough. After baking the dough for 20 minutes, steam it for 25 minutes and turn off the heat.

Nutrition comment: After oat is made into bee cake, it not only increases the total dietary fiber, but also reduces the sweetness of bee cake because raisins and medlar are used instead of sugar, and the flavor is not reduced. Oats and corn lack lysine, while soybean flour is rich in lysine, which can enhance the absorption and utilization of protein.

For the public.

Oat is a kind of healthy food that gives consideration to nutrition and won't get fat for modern office workers who are often in a state of tension. For people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, people with liver and renal insufficiency, obese people, middle-aged people and women who want to lose weight, it is a good health care product.

The general population can eat it. Suitable for pregnant women, infants, the elderly, aircrew and seafarers; Suitable for chronic patients, fatty liver, diabetes, edema and habitual constipation; Suitable for people who are weak, sweaty, prone to sweating and night sweats; It is suitable for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and arteriosclerosis.

Edible attention

There are also some precautions when eating oats. Don't eat too much at a time, otherwise it will cause stomach cramps or bloating; Moreover, eating too much is easy to induce labor, and pregnant women should avoid eating.