Cultivated oats
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Cultivated oats: plant description
Cultivated oats are an annual plant. Its root is fibrous, the stem has the shape of a straw with two to four nodes located on it. Almost all oat plants have a tongue on the border of the leaf plate.
The inflorescence of cultivated oats consists of a broom, which contains a stem and branches on the sides. The flowers of this plant are bisexual; from oats, fruits are obtained in the form of a grain.
Cultivated oats originated in China and Mongolia. This plant is a grain crop.
Distinguishes oats from grain in that it contains more different fats and starch, as well as other useful substances for the human body.
What can be cooked from cultivated oats?
There is an opinion among the people that not only can the grain of cultivated oats bring a lot of usefulness, but they also say that straw also helps in treatment. Boiled oat soup is a very useful dish for those who follow a diet, with pulmonary tuberculosis, as well as for children who are sick with scrofula. They also use a tincture of this culture for urinary retention.
A very good broth can be prepared from a decoction of oats with honey; it will be a nutritious remedy for those people who have been sick for a long time and are very weak. The grains of this culture are also used in choleretic collections. Oatmeal jelly is also cooked from it, it is useful for those who suffer from gastrointestinal diseases.
If you mix a decoction of oat straw with oak bark, then the resulting result can be used by those who have a lot of sweat on their feet, and such a decoction has also been used in the treatment of urolithiasis, diabetes and flatulence. The whole oat plant can be processed and used as a diaphoretic and diuretic.
If you have lead poisoning, then oatmeal can be added to the diet, but without milk content.
Why is cultivated oats useful?
Oatmeal is very rich in protein, like buckwheat. The proteins contained in cereals are very well absorbed and therefore they are classified as valuable cereals. The cereal contains starch, which is most quickly processed in the body than other cereals.
This cereal contains a lot of useful substances, including mineral salts. In almost all respects, this cereal is ahead of all other cereals and therefore it is used to produce food for children and for people who follow a diet. Soups and cereals, as well as baby formulas and jelly are prepared on it.
Soups from this culture are slimy and viscous, which is good for gastric secretion, thus they do not cause intestinal motility. The use of cultivated oats in the treatment of the stomach and intestines of sick people is actual.
How to cook oatmeal?
There are various types of cereals from cultivated oats. As a rule, groats are obtained from steamed oats, this contributes to its improvement in digestibility and becomes less sensitive to bitterness.
Uncrushed cereals from cultivated oats are very rich in minerals and various vitamins. Such cereals will slowly boil and the dish will be very thick. If you want it to boil faster, then you must first cut it.
If you have a need to cook cereals even faster, then buy rolled cereals.It is cleaned of skins, then subjected to processing during which grinding and polishing of the cereal occurs, this of course reduces the quantitative content of fiber, and increases the quantitative state of starch, but at the same time it will boil down faster.
It is very well absorbed and used in dietary nutrition.
Of course, oatmeal is considered to be the most delicious, as it is properly absorbed by the human body best of all.
Together with oatmeal, a decoction is also used, which is used for children with artificial feeding. It is bred in cow's milk and made into formula milk. The broth differs from cultural oats in that it contains a little less fiber.