HEALTHY AND SLIM WITH OAT

You must once hear that oat may be healthy for health and hearth. Besides, it is also able to slim your body. Oat is better alternative than junk food to keep your health and to slim your body.

As stated by Trias Mahmudiono SKM MPH, a nutritionist, oat is one of various food that you can consider to slim body shape. In spite of easy to process and to serve, it is kind of healthy food. It is kind of cereal made of wheat with some process.

Wheat itself consists of two part, husk and groat. Then, oat is made of the outside skin of groat. It is healthy because it is the best source of fiber that can be processed or called soluble fiber.

Keep Water and Viscosity

          Fiber has important role for our body such as keeping water and viscosity. So, when fiber gets in your body, it will change into gel in our intestine. The main duty of fiber is to keep water in our body, so that you will not easy to get hungry. So, it is very suitable for people who want to keep their body slim.

          High amount of fiber containing in oat can increase organic substance and cation. This condition may create respond in assimilation system. Besides, fiber helps to process food for fermentation, so that it is able to prevent constipation. Preventing constipation may make assimilation system better and healthier because toxin will be thrown through fesses.

Kinds of Oat

          Oat is easy to find in the market with various kinds and can be processed as you desire. These are some kinds of oat you may have.

1. Rolled Oats

Rolled oat is usually called as oatmeal or old-fashioned oats, old-fashioned oatmeal, flaked oats, flaked oatmeal, or oat flakes. It is kind of groats that is steamed and sliced. It is usually served as cereal or as cookies variation.

2. Quick Oats

Other name of quick oats is quick cooking oat, quick oatmeal, quick cooking oatmeal, and easy oats. It has very small and flat shape, so that it just needs short time to cook for around three-four minutes. It is the best oat to make a cake or cookies.

3. Scotch oats

Scotch oat and steel-cut oats are the same kinds of oat. It is also called as Irish oat, pinhead oat, coarse-cut oats, and steel-cut oatmeal. This kind of oat is made of soft groat which is thicker than rolled oat. It is usually served as warm cereal with milk.

4. Instant Oats

The variation of oat in instant package is very practice to serve. You can consume it directly with warm water. So, you do not have to have complicated cooking process. Besides, it usually has got additional taste and salt.

Nutrition of Oat

          In spite of fiber, oat also contains some nutrition which is good for health.

-      Protein

The quality of protein of oat is almost same as soybean, meat, milk, and egg.

-      Unsaturated Fatty Acid

The amount of unsaturated fatty acid which is 1,5 gram per 100 gram. Saturated fatty acid is also good for health.

-      Vitamin

Some vitamin containing in this cereal as vitamin A, B12, B6, C, E, and K. besides, it also has vitamin B5, folat, zinc, and magnesium.