Absorption of raw oats

[Skeletor]

Can anyone tell me if I'm making my own oats and protein shakes using powder and a cup of raw oats and water then mixing it with stick blender and consuming immediately am I getting the full macros from the oats as I would had I let them absorb water and expand or does it just go through me . Just a lot easier to eat a cup of oats than it is to cook and then eat them once full of water

[Spacebound]

I always used to eat raw oats every morning and never shat out whole oats. But I can't give you an accurate answer other than I never had a problem

[Leeroid]

Don't think anyone can give you a definitive answer on that one unless they did a study on it. If you're blending the oats into a fine powder though I think it'd be digestible and you'd be absorbing the full nutrient profile of the oats.

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

but what happens if you cook your oats in oil ?

 

 

would be interesting to see a study on this though.. a quick google search just gave me random stuff from bodybuilding.com etc. i remember a time when i made my own weight gain shakes with blended up (fairly fine) oats and don't remember having issues but i wasn't having them all the time and it wasn't long term.

 

long term i know you can have bowel/digestion problems from raw rice, though it may be completely irrelevant to oats i dunno. the difference in bioavailability as well as any consequences to the digestive tract would be good to read about on this topic

[Pseudonym]

but what happens if you cook your oats in oil ?

Are you shit-stirring?

 

I'm pretty sure that cooking the oats will increase the absorption (and probably the GI) significantly. After all, when oats are cooked, all the starch is released, the gluten comes out, the composition breaks down entirely... there are some pretty dramatic chemical changes. I'd be amazed if the absorption didn't increase.

 

But that's pure supposition from me.

[Dinahlady]

Pretty sure that when you consume them they will just sit (get wiggled around) in your stomach for like an hour before they go through to intestines and they start "absorbing" them anyway - so they will had plenty of time to soak up some water (prob pretty warm in there too, some nice acid might help - they probably pretty much cooked by the time you start actually digesting). Then it will take like another 2 hours to actually digest them - I think thats enough time for them to be completely obliterated, cooked or not. 
 

But srs I don't think it makes much difference at all - raw oats are really common in muesli which is meant to be eaten raw. 

 

(anecdotal: I have had GI issues in the past and always found raw oats actually better than cooked)

 

mmm I feel like oats now.

[Pseudonym]

raw oats are really common in muesli which is meant to be eaten raw.

True. Although originally muesli was soaked overnight to soften the oats.

 

I was going to make some comment about raw oats also being invented as a testosterone suppressant and masturbation preventative. But on checking my facts, I realised that was John Harvey Kellog and he invented corn flakes, not oats, for that purpose.

 

Still worth a read though... he was a deeply strange man who ran a sanitarium that specialised in giving yoghurt enemas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

 

 

His favorite device was an enema machine that could rapidly instill several gallons of water in a series of enemas. Every water enema was followed by a pint of yogurt — half was eaten, the other half was administered by enema, “thus planting the protective germs where they are most needed and may render most effective service."

Slightly off-topic, but it was worth it.

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

True. Although originally muesli was soaked overnight to soften the oats.

 

I was going to make some comment about raw oats also being invented as a testosterone suppressant and masturbation preventative. But on checking my facts, I realised that was John Harvey Kellog and he invented corn flakes, not oats, for that purpose.

 

Still worth a read though... he was a deeply strange man who ran a sanitarium that specialised in giving yoghurt enemas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

 

Slightly off-topic, but it was worth it.

[Pseudonym]

Oh come on, as random trivia facts go, they don't get much better than that one.