Hello, everyone. Oat is a kind of nutritious food in grain. People often refer to different oat foods as "naked wheat flour" in their daily lives, which leads to many people's ambiguity about oat and Qiao Mai. We should pay more attention to it in our daily life. So, today I will share the differences between oat and Qiao Mai.

1, appearance

Oat is a kind of herb and grain. Buckwheat is a common food, and it is also a food with the same origin of medicine and food. There are some differences in appearance between them. Oats are generally oval and oval with a smooth surface, while buckwheat is generally long.

2. Nutritional components

Oats are rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, etc. Proper consumption can supplement the needed nutrients for the body, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, and be beneficial to health. Buckwheat is rich in dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Proper consumption can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and be beneficial to health.

3. Applicable people

Oats are suitable for most people, especially constipation patients and people who lose weight. Buckwheat is more suitable for patients with digestive tract diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and other diseases.

4. How to eat

Oats can generally be used to cook porridge, cook rice or make bread. Buckwheat can be used for soaking in water, cooking porridge, frying or cold salad.

Avena sativa L. belongs to panicum miliaceum of Gramineae. Leaf sheaths are loose, ligule is transparent and membranous, leaves are flat, slightly rough, panicles are spreading, pyramid-shaped, and spikelets contain small flowers. Panicle spreading, pyramid-shaped, long 10~25 cm, angular and rough branches. Caryophylls are light brown pilose, with longitudinal grooves on the ventral surface, and bloom and bear fruit from April to September. Oats are recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Oats are mostly wild, hence the name". Oats are mainly concentrated in temperate regions in the northern hemisphere. The main producing countries are Russian, Canadian, American, German and China. The main oat producing areas in China are Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Gansu, with small areas planted in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet, among which Inner Mongolia has the largest planting area, accounting for more than 35% of the total oat planting area in China. Oats like cool, wet, sunny and not resistant to high temperature, and lack of light will cause stunting. Generally, oats are sown and planted in Sichuan, flat, beam and gentle slopes in cold dry land in mountainous areas.