What kind of plant is oat?

1. Oats belong to the genus Panicum in Gramineae, belonging to the superior coarse cereals, and are called Bromus and Wild Wheat in Compendium of Materia Medica. There are mainly two kinds, one is skin oats, and the other is naked oats, also called oil oats and naked oats. When they are ripe, they have no shells, but when they are ripe, they have shells. China mainly produces naked oats.

2. China is one of the centers of origin of oats, and Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia is one of the birthplaces of oats in the world, and is known as the "hometown of oats" in China. It is one of the main alpine crops, which are produced in most provinces and regions in China, but the concentrated production areas are high altitude areas such as Yinshan North and South in Inner Mongolia, Yinshan Yanshan in Hebei, Xishan in Shuozhou, Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain in Shanxi, Liupanshan Mountain, Helan Mountain, Qilian Mountain and Liangshan Mountain in China.

Oats are one of the daily foods in China. It was recognized as a functional food by FDA 1997 in the United States, and was rated as the fifth "Top Ten Healthy Foods in the World" by Time magazine. The United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, France and other countries call it "family doctor", "plant gold" and "natural beautician".

4. Oat grains are used for milling. Common eating methods are oatmeal porridge, oatmeal cake and oat bran cake. It is a food with low sugar, high nutrition and high energy, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce blood fat and blood sugar, prevent and treat colorectal cancer and heart disease, and also has the effect of skin care, and can treat dry skin and itching.