The key to losing weight by eating oats is the type, and you can't eat it casually. Many people say: I've been eating oats for a month, and I'm still fat! In fact, oat is a kind of high-protein coarse cereals, and its protein content ranks first among cereals, and there is about 15g protein in every 100g oat. It also has the effects of lowering cholesterol and blood lipid, preventing cancer, relaxing bowels and reducing fat. It is true that oats can lose weight, so according to common sense, it should be an ultra-low calorie food, right?

However, the calories of 1 bowl of oats are equal to the calories of 3 bowls of rice! In other words, every morning when you eat the first bowl of oats and take the first step to lose weight, you have actually eaten three bowls of white rice. .....

Oats are high in calories, but they are good because they are full and hungry. Oats contain a lot of β-glucan, which is a kind of soluble dietary fiber, and it is not easy to be digested and absorbed, which brings full satiety. So it's not its calories that make you thin, but it makes you eat less.

Therefore, the most important thing in oatmeal diet is to choose the right kind of oats. Oats can be divided into barnyard grass type and naked grain type. Generally speaking, the oat with barnyard grass is the oat with shell, while the naked oat has no shell. Oats with shells contain more dietary fiber and nutrients, but the taste is not very good. Generally, the raw oats we buy are the oats after the outer skin is ground off. Oats can be divided into ready-to-eat type and cooking type from the processing technology.

Instant oats: Advantages: simple and convenient, suitable for fast-paced life; Disadvantages: After baking, crushing and pressing, the nutrients and dietary fiber are seriously lost.

Cooking oats: advantages: wheat grains contain more wheat bran, water-soluble dietary fiber is fully dissolved, and the nutritional value is high. Disadvantages: poor taste.

Oats are also called brome and wild wheat. Some areas are called barley. Oatmeal, that is, oatmeal is rolled into pieces. Generally, all we buy are oatmeal. The effect of losing weight is also minimal.