Oat has a high nutritional value, rich in protein, fat, dietary fiber and vitamins, and carbohydrate content is the lowest in the grain. Avena sativa contains a complete range of amino acids, essential 8 amino acids not only high content, and balanced. Avena sativa contains fat is the main component of unsaturated fatty acids, linoleic acid can reduce the accumulation of cholesterol in the cardiovascular.

Oat also contains other cereal grains in the lack of saponin, can effectively reduce cholesterol, high blood lipids, atherosclerotic coronary heart disease, hypertension are effective. In addition, vitamins and phosphorus, iron and other substances are also relatively rich, rich in vitamin E beneficial to human skin, so it also has a good beauty effect.

Avena sativa in the dietary fiber content is high, these fibers into the human gut can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, reduce harmful substances and intestinal wall contact time. In particular, pectin absorbs water and soaks up, accelerating the discharge of feces from the intestinal cavity, which can prevent constipation, rectal cancer and varicose arteries in the lower limbs. At the same time, it also promotes the excretion of bile, reduces the reabsorption of bile, and prevents the efficacy of gallstones.

The oat is cleaned, fried and processed into oat flour, which can then be made into a variety of oat food. The traditional oat noodle food has cold oat noodle fish, yam fish, oat noodle dumplings and oat noodle castanets. Avena is a low calorie food, easy to cause satiety after eating, long-term consumption has the effect of weight loss. Can promote lactation, reduce cholesterol, common cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases of middle-aged and elderly people have a certain preventive effect, and is to promote children's growth and development and slow down the aging process of the elderly good food.

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Avena sativa is a common grain crop in the Northwest region, and it is a medicinal crop. A cereal crop, like cold, drought resistance, saline resistance, short growing period, so mainly distributed in Jin, Hebei, Shaanxi, Mongolia and other cool temperate monsoon climate zone. Because of its own nutritional value and health value, favored by the people, especially diabetics, obese people, as well as middle-aged and elderly people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

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