What are the main ingredients of oats?

Nutritional composition

Fat: In the world of more than 4000 kinds of oats, more than 90% of oat fat content in 5-9%, equivalent to rice, white flour 4-5 times, ranking first among all cereals. Oat fat 80% for unsaturated fatty acids, mainly monounsaturated fatty acids, linoleic acid and linolenic acid, of which linoleic acid accounted for 38.1%-52.0% of the fat content. Linoleic acid is the body's most important essential fatty acids, has an important physiological function in the human body, can reduce the accumulation of cholesterol in the cardiovascular...?

Protein and amino acids: Protein content in oats is very rich (15.6%), 1.6-2.3 times more than that of rice and wheat flour, which is the first in cereal grains. Oat protein has high nutritional value, containing 18 kinds of amino acids, of which 8 are essential amino acids. 8 essential amino acids are not only rich in content but also in reasonable proportion, close to the nutritional pattern recommended by FAO/WHO, with high utilization rate in human body. The lysine content of oats is more than 2 times that of wheat and rice, and the tryptophan content is more than 1.7 times that of wheat and rice. Therefore, supplemental oatmeal can make up for the "lysine deficiency" caused by China's dietary structure.

Vitamins and minerals: oats are rich in vitamins, including vitamin B1, vitamin B2, more vitamin E and niacin, folic acid. Among them, vitamin B1, B2 is higher than the content of rice, vitamin E content is also higher than flour and rice. Oats are also rich in minerals, including calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, copper, selenium and so on. In particular, the calcium content is significantly higher than that of wheat flour, rice, millet, buckwheat noodles and so on. The selenium content of oats is also high, equivalent to 3.72 times that of wheat, 7.9 times that of corn, and 34.8 times that of rice.

Dietary fiber: dietary fiber is a natural organic polymer compounds, is made of monosaccharides dehydrated polymerization of non-starch polysaccharides, can not be broken down by the body's digestive enzymes, but is to maintain the health of indispensable carbohydrates, which includes cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, lignin and so on. According to its solubility characteristics can be divided into soluble fiber and insoluble fiber two categories. Oats have both soluble and insoluble two kinds of dietary fiber, so it is also known as the natural dietary fiber family in the "aristocrat". The total cellulose content of oats is 17-21%, of which soluble dietary fiber (the main component is β-glucan) accounts for about 1/3 of the total dietary fiber, significantly higher than other grains.