1. Oat is a food with low sugar, high protein and high energy. The essential amino acids in protein are well balanced in grains, 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.
2. Oats contain minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and zinc, which can prevent osteoporosis, promote wound healing and prevent anemia. Oats are good calcium supplements.
3. Oats are full in shape, hollow inside, like a sponge, and have strong water absorption. They can absorb and expel cholesterol like sponges in the human body, thus reducing the cholesterol content in the blood, lowering blood lipids and cholesterol, and preventing heart disease.
4. 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.
5. Oats are rich in linoleic acid, which plays an auxiliary role in diabetes, fatty liver, edema and constipation. And it is also of great benefit to the elderly to enhance their physical strength and prolong their life.
6. Oats are rich in dietary fiber, which can delay gastric emptying, increase satiety, control appetite, promote intestinal peristalsis, and have an auxiliary therapeutic effect on constipation and edema.
7. 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.
8. Oats are rich in β-glucan, which can improve the immune system, resist bacteria and oxidation, effectively enhance human immunity and resist the spring flu.
9. The rich vitamin B6 in oats helps to raise the serotonin level of human body, thus improving people's mood, relaxing mood, improving blood circulation and relieving the pressure brought by life and work.
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Oatmeal is a kind of flat food, with a diameter similar to that of soybeans and a complete shape. Cooked oats are very sticky, and the healthy components of β -glucan have the functions of lowering blood fat, lowering blood sugar and feeling full.
Oats are shelled and ground into oatmeal with different thicknesses, or softened and flattened to make oatmeal rolls. The instant oatmeal processed by fast food has a sense of fragmentation, but it can still be seen in its original shape. Generally speaking, the thicker the same amount of oats is cooked, the better the health care effect.
Oats are made into grains by fine processing, which is more convenient to eat and tastes better, and has become a popular healthy food. Among them, dietary fiber has many beneficial biological effects, which can reduce triglyceride low-density fatty protein, promote cholesterol excretion, prevent and treat diabetes, and help reduce the occurrence of diabetic vascular complications. It can moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, which is very helpful for patients with habitual constipation; Oat is a low-calorie food, which is easy to cause satiety after eating. Long-term consumption has the effect of losing weight.
In addition, oats are rich in vitamins B 1, B2, E, folic acid and so on. It can improve blood circulation and relieve the pressure brought by life and work. Minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and manganese can also prevent osteoporosis, promote wound healing and prevent anemia.
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