The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents recommend that we consume a certain amount of whole grains as a staple food every day. In recent years, with the popularization of nutrition, people have also paid more and more attention to healthy diets. Many people choose multigrains instead of traditional rice noodles as a staple food. Many intellectuals and some middle classes have chosen oats as a daily staple.
So, what is a whole grain?
Baidu Encyclopedia explains it this way: whole grain refers to a complete, crushed, broken or tableted grain, the basic composition of which includes starchy endosperm, germ and cortex, and the relative proportion of each component is the same as that of intact yingguo.
So, are rice and oatmeal counted as whole grain foods?
Strictly speaking, modern processed rice is not a whole grain, because the germ lost in it during the grinding process, so it is not a whole grain, but brown rice is a whole grain; as for oatmeal, it is basically a whole grain, but after all, it is pressed into a slice and semi-matured, so its nutritional value is certainly not as rich and comprehensive as oat rice.
Oats are an amazing grain that is different from other grains. It is very nutritious, so during their evolution it has grown a thick layer of skin, much thicker than the seed coat of wheat grains, mainly to protect their seeds from being easily eaten.
In nature, nutrient-rich foods usually do the same, and in order to protect themselves, they usually evolve various skills to prevent being eaten.
Where is the nutritional value of oats mainly reflected?
We all know that oat rice is a natural health food, identified by the American "Time" magazine as the only cereal in the "world's top ten health foods", the US FDA identified oats as a nutritional health grain: "oats have the effect of preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases", and its main role component is β - dextran.
Although the oat seed skin is thick, it is not easy to cook directly under the pot. But people know that it is rich in nutrients, how can they let it go so easily!
Oats are mainly divided into two kinds of peeled oats and naked oats, the vast majority of china is naked oats, while more than 90% of the Western production of peeled oats, peel oats than naked oats thicker than the skin.
Therefore, in order to absorb rich nutrients, smart Westerners made it into oatmeal, which is much more convenient to eat and easy to cook. This is the Western way of eating, if directly applied to Chinese eating habits, it will make people feel uncomfortable, and it is more difficult to digest.
So how do Chinese eat oats?
China is a big food country, and its gastronomic culture has a long history. Contemporary staple foods, wheat and rice, dominate absolutely. For wheat, Chinese traditional way of eating it is to make pasta, while rice is customarily steamed into rice.
Oats, although also belong to the wheat class. However, unlike wheat, it does not contain gluten, which is difficult to form into pasta, and must be mixed with other flours to make traditional delicacies such as oatmeal, fish, oat nests, etc. But if you make it like rice, its hard shell is difficult to cook.
Although it is nutritious and delicious, it is really not easy to operate!
Is there any way to solve this dilemma?
The answer is yes! Ren Changzhong, chief scientist of the National Oat Buckwheat Industry Technology System, has continuously summarized his experience through years of research on breeding, planting, nutritional value and processing technology, and finally made oats steamed rice as quickly as rice, cooked with different varieties of rice, and without the need to foam hair in advance.
The key to this technology lies in seed and processing technology, what is made by the traditional rice mill will become unformed oatmeal, and only through professional equipment and grinding technology can we make oat rice that can really be cooked with rice.
At present, the technology is already patenting, and a pioneering development has launched a new staple food, oat rice.
In the future, if you want to eat oat rice, you no longer need to foam your hair in advance, or use a special steamer, directly like steamed rice, that is, cooked and eaten.