Wheat germ and oats are both natural and nutritious health-preserving cereal ingredients, which play a very important role in reducing weight, relaxing bowels and controlling sugar after meals. Although these two products have very similar functions, there are qualitative differences in nutritional value.

Compendium of Materia Medica records: "Wheat germ is very beneficial to nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, stopping diarrhea, controlling sugar and strengthening the stomach". The research results of 20 1 1 year show that increasing the intake of coarse grains such as wheat germ and oats can obviously improve constipation and other problems. Among them, wheat germ is rich in mineral elements "iron, potassium, magnesium and zinc", which is also very helpful for relaxing bowels and nourishing the stomach.

Wheat germ: Wheat germ is the essence extracted in the process of wheat processing into flour, but its nutrition accounts for 97% of the whole wheat grain. It is rich in dietary fiber, protein, vitamin E, B vitamins and mineral elements, and does not contain fatty acids, wheat brass, folic acid, linoleic acid, glutathione, lecithin, etc. It has extremely high nutritional value and medicinal value.

Oatmeal: Oatmeal is made of rolled oats, which is rich in dietary fiber, protein, vitamins B 1, B2, E, folic acid, linoleic acid, etc. Among them, β -glucan is the most recommended health-care component in oats, and long-term consumption can improve constipation and other problems.

Comparing dietary fiber: 100g wheat germ contains 1 1. 1g dietary fiber; 100g oatmeal contains13.2g dietary fiber.

From the comparison of calories and carbohydrates: per100g oats: calories are about 338kcal, and carbohydrates are about 77.4g.. Every100g of wheat germ: about 350 kilocalories, about 27.5g of carbohydrate.

Compared with protein in terms of fat: 100g of wheat germ and 100g of oats, the fat content of wheat germ is relatively high, but the fat of wheat germ belongs to high-quality unsaturated fatty acids. The protein content of 100g wheat germ is about 38.8g；; The protein content of 100g oats is only 15g.

Comparing with the glycemic index, the GI of 100g wheat germ is 25; 100g oatmeal has a GI of 65. Therefore, the glycemic index of wheat germ is much lower than that of oats, which is more conducive to people who need to control sugar.

To sum up, although wheat germ is not as good as oatmeal in individual nutritional components, from the perspective of health care, wheat germ is much better than oatmeal in both edible and medicinal effects, which is more conducive to health care.