1 Oats are also known as Bromus, Wild Wheat, Yumai and Oxford. Oats are generally divided into hulled oats and naked oats. Oats taste hard and were once unpopular, but now they are regarded as one of the healthy foods. Among the top ten health foods, oats rank fifth.

Oats contain carbohydrates, fats, protein, cellulose, vitamin E, nicotinic acid, riboflavin and other vitamins, as well as minerals such as magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, sodium and selenium. In addition, oats are extremely rich in linoleic acid.

Table of nutritional components of oats

Oat is a low-sugar, high-protein and high-energy food. The balance of essential amino acids in protein is the best in cereals, and the contents of lysine and methionine are ideal. The content of essential fatty acids is also rich, in which linoleic acid accounts for more than 1/3 of fatty acids, and vitamins and minerals are also rich, especially vitamin B, which ranks first in cereals.

1 Oats contain minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and zinc, which can prevent osteoporosis, promote wound healing and prevent anemia. They are good calcium supplements.

Oats are full in shape, hollow inside, like a sponge, and have strong water absorption. They can absorb the cholesterol in the human body like sponges and excrete it, thus reducing the cholesterol content in the blood and playing a health care role in lowering blood fat, cholesterol and preventing heart disease.

Oats can reduce the pigmentation of facial skin by lowering blood sugar, expelling cholesterol, and cleaning up excess garbage for human body, which has triple effects of beauty, weight loss and detoxification.

Oats are rich in linoleic acid, which plays an auxiliary role in diabetes, fatty liver, edema and constipation, and is also of great benefit to the elderly to enhance physical strength and prolong life.

Oats are rich in dietary fiber, which can delay gastric emptying, increase satiety, control appetite, promote intestinal peristalsis, and have an auxiliary treatment effect on constipation and edema.

6 Oats have low sugar content. Eating oats regularly can control the sharp rise of blood sugar after meals, prevent diabetes and regulate human blood sugar. It is a health food for diabetics.