If you ask people with what they associate oatmeal, then opinions will be divided approximately equally - England and the hospital. And indeed, oatmeal is traditional English, and to be more precise, a Scottish breakfast, but in addition this porridge is an integral component of many therapeutic diets and is traditionally used in medical nutrition. The latter is due to the fact that oatmeal normalizes the work of the digestive organs, removes cholesterol and salts of heavy metals, contains many vitamins and minerals necessary for man.
Oatmeal - proteins, fats, carbohydrates
Like many cereals, oatmeal contains many carbohydrates - up to 64% by weight. However, these are complex carbohydrates that do not cause a sharp rise in blood sugar, but, on the contrary, slowly splitting, supply the body with the necessary energy for a long time. That's why the porridge cooked from it is a wonderful breakfast option.
In addition, raw oatmeal contains proteins - about 18% of the weight of the product, fats - 11%, most of which are mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids (mainly oleic and linoleic).
In addition, oatmeal porridge contains:
- practically all vitamins of group B - one of the spheres of their influence - prevention of depressions, and they are also responsible for the health of the skin, hair and nails;
- Vitamin A - slows down the aging process, because is necessary for the construction of new cells;
- vitamin E - antioxidant, protects the body from free radicals, is responsible for reproductive function;
- vitamin K - coagulability factor of the blood, with a deficiency of this vitamin there may be bleeding, subcutaneous hemorrhage, bleeding gums;
- vitamin C - there is very little of it in oatmeal, in addition ascorbic acid does not tolerate heat treatment, so the content of this vitamin in oatmeal can be neglected;
- macroelements - potassium, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus;
- trace elements - iron, manganese, copper, selenium and zinc.
However, many people are not too fond of this, of course, a useful product. And the thing is that they simply do not know how to cook it.
How to cook oatmeal?
One of the variants of the classic "children's" oatmeal from cereal looks like this:
Oatmeal with milk
Ingredients:
- oat flakes - 400 g;
- water 750 ml;
- milk - 500 ml;
- salt - 2 teaspoons;
- butter - 2 tablespoons;
- sugar - to taste;
- anise, bad, cinnamon or lemon powder (orange) - to taste.
Preparation
We pour flakes of water, cook on low heat until the flakes are properly boiled. Then, we pass the porridge through a metal sieve, or a colander. Add hot milk and cook until the porridge gently thickens (it must be liquid, flowing). We add a little bit of sugar (it practically should not be felt), as well as any of the above spices and butter.
For the preparation of this oatmeal cereal flakes "Hercules" are best suited, its caloric content is 100 kilocalories.
There is also a rather original version of the "adult" oatmeal:
Oatmeal porridge with by-products
Ingredients:
- grain of oats - 200 g;
- rice - 200 g;
- water - 1 l;
- beef liver - 100 g;
- beef heart - 100 g;
- beef lung - 100 g;
- onion - 1 onion;
- butter - 50 g;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
Rice and oats cook crumbly porridge. To do this, add the oatmeal to the boiling water, after 5 minutes - Fig. While preparing porridge, boil the heart and lung, let's go through the meat grinder. Then you need to chop the onions, fry together with the liver in butter, finely chop everything. Add the forcemeat from the boiled heart and lung, fry and mix with the porridge.
Calories in such oatmeal will be the same as in pasta in the Navy - 260-300 kcal.
How many kilocalories are there in oatmeal?
Despite the rich vitamin-mineral composition, the calories in the oatmeal are a little - 340 kilocalories in raw croup.
Are they getting fat from oatmeal?
In general, you can recover by eating almost any product, and oatmeal is no exception. For people who want to lose weight, you need to remember that oatmeal is rich in carbohydrates. Therefore, eat it better in the morning.