Oats ( AVENA SATIVA ) grasses, compendium of Materia Medica called Brome, wild wheat. Oatmeal easy peeling, so called oats, is a low-sugar, high-nutrition, high-energy food. Oat properties ganping. Invigorating spleen and heart. Have a high nutritional value. Can be used for weak sweating, night sweats, or tuberculosis. Fried soup serving, or "Chung Hom Kok surface steam peeled and make bread to eat." oat, Hardy, drought-resistant, strong adaptability to soil, sowing and reproduction. Oats are rich in dietary fiber, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, facilitate defecation, low calorie, low glycemic index, lipid-lowering blood sugar, is one of the premium supplements, was essential to dry food in poorer areas.
1997 United States FDA finds oats as functional foods, with lower, stable blood glucose effect of cholesterol. United States, time magazine's "ten healthy foods" oat ranked fifth, was the only list of cereals.
Grains for milling consumption or for animal feed, is high in nutritional value. Consumption of wheat, rice, corn and other food for 9, with the highest economic value of oats, mainly in nutrition, health care and feeding value of high. Beta-glucan in oats can reduce the level of glucose in the blood increases, the prevention and control of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Oats are rich in dietary fiber has the effect of cleaning intestinal waste.