Oats and oatmeal are different.

1. Oatmeal, also known as oil wheat, jade wheat, bell wheat, is a plant of the family Poaceae and Oat. Its scientific name is "naked oats" or "naked oats". It is an oat variety originating in China. . The fruits can be ground to make flour to make various pastas, or cultivated as livestock feed.

2. Oats (scientific name: Avena sativa L.) is an annual herbaceous plant of the Gramineae family and the genus Avena. The fibrous roots are tougher. The stalk is upright, smooth and hairless, up to 120 cm high, and knotted. The leaf sheaths are loose, the ligules are transparent and membranous, the leaves are flat and slightly rough, the panicles are unfolded, pyramid-shaped, and the spikelets contain florets; the rachis is almost hairless or has sparse short hairs, which is not easy to break off; the back of the first lemma is absent Hairy, the base plate has only a few short hairs or is nearly hairless, without awns, or only a straight awn on the back, and the second lemma is hairless, usually without awns. The caryopses are covered with light brown pubescence and have longitudinal grooves on their abdomen. They bloom and bear fruit from April to September.