Oats (scientific name: Avena?sativa) are mainly used in Western food to make muesli, or mixed with fruit juices and spices to make a dry food, soaked in milk for breakfast. Russians appreciate dark bread made from oats, which in modern times is considered to be a low-calorie health food, in high demand and low production, and more expensive than wheat. In Russia dark bread is much more expensive than white bread made from wheat flour.
Oats can also be brewed beer and whiskey, the famous Scotch whisky in the oats brewed.
Oats yield is very low, an average of only 100 kilograms per hectare, (less than twenty pounds per acre). Due to the spike scattered, harvest also lost about 10%, so the price is more expensive, before only as a last resort to planting oats, but with the growth in demand, many suitable areas instead of increasing the area of cultivation.
Oats are considered a health food by modern people because they contain water-soluble fiber, which has the effect of lowering low-density cholesterol and triglycerides.
The soluble fiber contained in oats is mainly beta-glucan. This fiber is able to enter the blood vessels and absorb LDL cholesterol from the blood, so oats are generally considered to have cardiovascular benefits.
In addition, because oats retain more outer layer of fiber during processing, they also have more dietary fiber than other cereals, which promotes intestinal motility and increases stool size.