"Son, look at me to see if I bought fake oats."

Grandma Liu has been diagnosed with diabetes for many years, and has been paying close attention to her diet in her life for fear of losing control of her blood sugar. Recently, she heard from her neighbor that eating oats is much better for blood sugar control than eating rice, and that oats are effective in lowering blood lipids, losing weight, and lowering blood sugar.

After listening to her neighbor, she went to the supermarket and bought several packages of oatmeal to eat at home.

After eating for a while, she went to measure her blood sugar again and found that it had risen instead of falling. This makes her feel very confused, just as her son was around, she asked him what was going on, did he buy the wrong one?

The son took a look at the instant oatmeal that Grandma Liu bought. Tell her, indeed, buy the wrong, but did not explain why it was in a hurry to go to work, Liu grandmother puzzled, this package is written on the oatmeal, how to buy the wrong it ......

life, many people like Liu grandmother such as the example, heard that oatmeal is good for the body, no matter how to go to the supermarket to buy a bunch of oats. The first thing you need to do is to get the right kind of oatmeal. It doesn't matter if you buy the right one or not, as long as it's an oatmeal. In fact, it's the pure oats that are good for you, not the kind of instant oats sold in supermarkets that have a lot of additives. Everyone says oats are good, but do you really eat them right?

As the saying goes, "Five grains and cereals, oats is the king".

A team of researchers from the Institute of Nutrition and Health at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Environmental Medicine and Engineering at Southeast University jointly conducted a study that was published in the international journal Frontiers in Immunology. The researchers selected 210 subjects with mildly elevated cholesterol and divided these subjects equally into 2 groups, each consuming 80g of oats/rice per day for 45 days.

It was found that the total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in both groups decreased compared to the health data on the first day. After 45 days, the oatmeal group showed a greater decrease in both values, with total cholesterol dropping by 5.7% and LDL cholesterol dropping by 8.7%, while the rice group showed decreases in values of 3.0% and 3.9%.

From this, the researchers concluded that oat intake had a beneficial effect on cholesterol and LDL cholesterol reduction in the body. This is mainly due to the richness of nutrients in oats, which contain proteins and amino acids, vitamins and minerals, and beta-glucans, among other nutrients.

These substances, when introduced into the body, can help the body to replenish enough nutrients, prevent vitamin B and mineral deficiencies, and improve insulin sensitivity in the body, prevent constipation, and for people with diabetes and those who are often constipated, consuming oats can be a great benefit to their health.

Since oatmeal has so many benefits, why didn't Grandma Liu eat oatmeal to lower her blood glucose, but her blood glucose increased? Grandma Liu's impression of oatmeal has not been very good since then, in the end, oatmeal is a good health, or "harm"? Follow Xiaomiao to understand this problem.

Of course, oats are a good nutrient, but in the case of Grandma Liu, who ate oats but ate elevated blood sugar, she mostly bought processed instant oats. These oats have a lot of added sugar, chopped dried fruit, and chopped nuts to make sure they taste good.

The selling point of this type of cereal is that it is more nutritious and healthier, but in fact, these oats have none of the benefits of regular oats. Coupled with the addition of a large number of other ingredients, will lead to oats become high-calorie, high-sugar, high-fat food, naturally not suitable for their own high-glycemic people, consumption of this type of oats, is tantamount to "adding to the problem".

In addition to instant oats, there are a lot of nutritious oatmeal on the market that claim to be more nutritious, but is this type of oatmeal really more nutritious?

This is not necessarily the case! The proportion of oats in these products is not large, and even with the addition of calcium, protein, and other nutrients, the nutritional value of the oatmeal is not necessarily higher than that of pure oatmeal, so this type of oatmeal is also not recommended to buy.

In addition, there is a need to remind, although the oatmeal nutritional value is very high, but it is not recommended to eat a lot of long-term. Fan Zhihong, an associate professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety in the College of Food Science at China Agricultural University, pointed out that oats are very rich in dietary fiber, and long-term intake of large quantities of oats can lead to an overload of the gastrointestinal tract, affecting the absorption of other nutrients, and on the contrary, it is not good for health. It is recommended that the number of weekly intake of oatmeal can be maintained at 4 times, each time the amount of intake of no more than 40g.