How do you eat your Oats?

[MILF]

I can't for the life of me enjoy my oats. I really want to eat them without gagging. I ate bircher muesli till I could face it no more. Now I am at a loss as to how to have my oats now.

How do you have them??

[Hennie]

Do you cook it?

[oldfella]

Cup of oats in a bowl - 2 cups boiling water. Slice a banana over the top. Mix up 2-3 scoops pp with warm water. Pour that over the top like a sauce. Or chuck a yoghurt in, instead of the banana.

Been doing the same thing for soooooo long now.

[wutang]

I cook them with water and add a banana/cinnamon on top,tastes good to me.

[groovy]

i just add oats to my shake in the morning and drink it up. Its faster and out of the way.

[mike27]

oats and milk and micro for 90secs, add flax oil. eat

also add bannan somtimes

[Chillicat]

Home made oaty bars. Less time consuming in the morning, and can eat on the way to work and not muck around with bowls and hot water and soaking time every morning - I'm an up, shower and out the door kind of person, but want to eat as well, so it works for me, and has more or less the same nutrition (but more fat due to the peanut butter to help bind them)

[tomsammce]

oats, protein powder, stir up, put cold water in, stir again. eat.

[Dr Squat]

oats, protein powder, stir up, put cold water in, stir again. eat.

Doesn't that bloat your bloated ab bro? :pfft:

[AgentOrange]

i brought a coffee grinder a while back and ground it into a fine powder it almost disolves in a shake... easy way to get in down. May effect the GI abit tho lol :shrug:

Failing that its fine enough to snort with your coke or speed. wow

[broseff]

I hate oats aswell but good diet is built on them

i have two ways

blended in a shake - but never gets fine enough so i end up chewing on raw oats at the end of the shake not great

or

4-6 egg whites + 1/2 cup of raw oats mixed up salt and pepper. makes a pretty decent omlette when served with a bit of tomato sauce. the oats soften up nicely and dont really have too much flavour. ive had some funny looks in the flat chowing down on this though.

Does anyone have a museli recipe using oats? do they bake them first?

[Dr Squat]

Is there any research about the digestion of raw oats, raw eggs etc? My non-scientific, anecdotal view tells me that this approach is not as good as the cooked version. But I am just speculating.

[startinfromscratch]

Is there any research about the digestion of raw oats, raw eggs etc? My non-scientific, anecdotal view tells me that this approach is not as good as the cooked version. But I am just speculating.

dont ask me to find it, but there has been conclusive proof that raw whites have shithouse bioavailability compared to cooked.

as far as oats, yea i think ground oats may have a SLIGHTLY higher G.I than whole, but oats are oats, if your worrying about your ground oats spiking your insulin, your name would be nick smith

note - stupidmarket sels bags og milled/ground oats.

[Dr Squat]

Is there any research about the digestion of raw oats, raw eggs etc? My non-scientific, anecdotal view tells me that this approach is not as good as the cooked version. But I am just speculating.

dont ask me to find it, but there has been conclusive proof that raw whites have shithouse bioavailability compared to cooked.

as far as oats, yea i think ground oats may have a SLIGHTLY higher G.I than whole, but oats are oats, if your worrying about your ground oats spiking your insulin, your name would be nick smith

note - stupidmarket sels bags og milled/ground oats.

Lol bro, I am way more simplistic than that. Can my body use them as effectively if they are not cooked? I'm an old school dude. Usually when something is easier, it's not as good for you.

[Ronin]

oats, protein powder, stir up, put cold water in, stir again. eat.

can't argue with that one, I do the same thing. Although I also add some cocoa as I use unflavoured whey. In the winter I might nuke it for a couple of minutes for a warm brekkie. Chucking in a handful of sultanas is also an option.

[Phedder]

I absolutely love my oats, couldn't go without them.

1-1.5cups Oats + milk + 1tbs peanut butter +1tsp coffee and microwave, then add 1 scoop of superquad double choc fudge and add a sliced banana on top = heaven.

[PeterDolan]

Dr. Squat

I'd think that cooking them would remove some gluten which would make make it easier to digest?

[train hard]

Dr. Squat

I'd think that cooking them would remove some gluten which would make make it easier to digest?

if i put my bread in the toaster will that remove some of the gluten?

come on guys cooked or raw once it enters the stomach is it gona be any different really? keep it simple have it which ever way you like.

i personally cook it in the micro for a few minutes then put cinnamon and fresh pinnapple over the top with a bit of milk & whey and have with about 8 eqqs

[Dr Squat]

Dr. Squat

I'd think that cooking them would remove some gluten which would make make it easier to digest?

if i put my bread in the toaster will that remove some of the gluten?

come on guys cooked or raw once it enters the stomach is it gona be any different really? keep it simple have it which ever way you like.

i personally cook it in the micro for a few minutes then put cinnamon and fresh pinnapple over the top with a bit of milk & whey and have with about 8 eqqs

Do you cook your 8 eggs? Or doesn't that matter either.

I don't care about a bit of gluten or bread for that matter. My question was is there any difference between eating cooked oats and raw oats? That's pretty simple. My "gut" tells me that there probably is. You don't think so? Neither of us knows. It's a pretty fundamental question. Especially given the trend toward adding a raw oats to ones protein shakes. Hopefully someone smarter than you and me has some info.

[Phedder]

From Wiki.

Raw starch will digest poorly in the duodenum and small intestine, while bacterial degradation will take place mainly in the colon. Resistant starch is starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals. In order to increase the digestibility, starch is cooked. Hence, before humans started using fire, eating grains was not a very useful way to get energy.

As far as I know cooking starch breaks it down from a polysaccharide into a monosaccharide, or complex carb into a simple carb. Ever noticed how cooked oats are sweeter than raw oats, toast is sweeter than bread etc? That's why. Personally I never thought that raw wouldn't actually digest fully, just thought it'd take longer to digest it but that wiki quote suggests otherwise :?

[train hard]

Dr. Squat

I'd think that cooking them would remove some gluten which would make make it easier to digest?

if i put my bread in the toaster will that remove some of the gluten?

come on guys cooked or raw once it enters the stomach is it gona be any different really? keep it simple have it which ever way you like.

i personally cook it in the micro for a few minutes then put cinnamon and fresh pinnapple over the top with a bit of milk & whey and have with about 8 eqqs

Do you cook your 8 eggs? Or doesn't that matter either.

I don't care about a bit of gluten or bread for that matter. My question was is there any difference between eating cooked oats and raw oats? That's pretty simple. My "gut" tells me that there probably is. You don't think so? Neither of us knows. It's a pretty fundamental question. Especially given the trend toward adding a raw oats to ones protein shakes. Hopefully someone smarter than you and me has some info.

well with eggs you run the risk of salmonnella having them raw so i always cook but yeah wasnt having a go just a little chuckle bout the gluten but yea valid point id be interested too if there was a difference in cooked and raw oats my gut tells me there isnt but i dont have any scientific evidence to support that but i too would be interested to know fair question

[Dr Squat]

I think it's just another way in which we are trying to short cut the process. Chucking a cup of oats in a shake and skulling down is quick and easy. Our sport is not about quick and easy.

[teamfatboy]

Now you've got me interested....

a. what effect does the rolling have on the oats; and

b. cooking with heat, versus soaking in tepid water - any difference ?

Off to check out the bro-science

[Phedder]

Note that this was a test tube study, couldn't find any human tests, most likely because they're much harder to do. Would be great if anyone could provide a more applicable study.

Factors affecting the rate of hydrolysis of starch

in food

Penny Snow, B. Sc. (Hons) and Kerin O’Dea3, Ph.D. http://www.ajcn.org/content/34/12/2721.full.pdf+html

About rolled oats;

The cooked cereal was

hydrolyzed much more quickly than the raw

cereal. After 30 min, for example, 68.7% of

the starch in the cooked rolled oats had been

hydrolyzed, whereas only 18.7% of the starch

in the raw form was hydrolyzed at this stage.

But they later say;

Using a simple in vitro method we have

studied a number of factors that influence the

rate of hydrolysis of starch in cereal foods.

This system does not closely resemble the

intestinal environment during digestion except

for the presence of the enzymes responsible

for starch hydrolysis. It is a model for

examining characteristics of the foods that

could affect the rate of digestion of carbohydrate

in those foods, but not one in which it

is possible to study factors that directly affect

the rate of absorption of digested carbohydrate.

As far as I can gather the cooking likely affects the rate of absorption moreso than the overall amount of the food that the body can absorb. Raw will take the body longer to digest, and because of this I think it could pass through the digestive system before all of it is able to be fully absorbed. You could probably make similar claims regarding the surface area though, if you consumed the oats whole vs ground I think that would have a similar impact on digestion rates and this is addressed if you wish to read the whole study.

[PeterDolan]

Dr. Squat

I'd think that cooking them would remove some gluten which would make make it easier to digest?

if i put my bread in the toaster will that remove some of the gluten?

come on guys cooked or raw once it enters the stomach is it gona be any different really? keep it simple have it which ever way you like.

i personally cook it in the micro for a few minutes then put cinnamon and fresh pinnapple over the top with a bit of milk & whey and have with about 8 eqqs

Just like boiling your veges remove vitamins...

If it doesn't remove the gluten then cool, no difference, if it does it'll help with the digestion process