“Food in Week Fourth”

This blog is talking about oatmeal, which is a healthy meal for people to eat, especially for elders, disability people and people who have high blood pressure. Although oatmeal has no taste, there are many ways to eat it and it has many benefits for human’s body. Therefore, I would like to explain what oatmeal is, when and where, and what is good for people.

 

What is Oatmeal?

  • Is a type of coarse flour that make of oat grains
  • People also called it “white oats”
  • It can be thick or thin and may be categorized as “old-fashioned”, “quick oat” or “instant” which depends on the cooking time.

 

The history of oatmeal:

  • It has been around 2000 B.C in Egypt’s 12th Dynasty
    • It have been familiar in China as well
    • But it was not valued much by Egyptians and not cultivated by them
  • The Greeks and Romans considered oatmeal fare for barbarians
    • Then oats were planted in Britain where the climate, especially Scotland, is ideal for growing cereals.
  • It was invented by a research scientist at Britain

 

What ways to make oatmeal taste better?

  • People usually put fruit on top, such as strawberry, blueberry and bananas
  • If the person who are going to exercise, I would like to recommend the person to put chia seed and protein powder in the oatmeal which give more energy and assist to have abs 
  • If the person want to taste better, but do not want to eat cereal, they can use fresh milk, almond milk or yogurt to cook with the oat
  • people who like sweet, they can also make it with chocolate chip, it seems like a dessert after the main course

What is good for people?

  • It can lower the risk of heart disease when combined with a low-fat diet via the effect of oat beta-glucan to reduce high blood pressure
  • It also has good nutrition
    • It only have 0.3 sugar and enough fiber for human body
    • It has vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin 
    • It provides 71 calories and contains 29% of the Daily Value for manganese

Oatmeal, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatmeal The history of oatmeal, https://www.krcu.org/post/harte-appetite-origins-oatmeal#stream/0