Oats or Avena sativa are the perfect cereal for your morning breakfast. There are many health benefits of oats. Oats are rich in a dietary fiber called beta-glucan. Use oats in your regular diet for a healthy body.
Oats is the perfect cereal for your mornings – cook it slow, soak it overnight, make a bread or pancake from oats flour or blend it with fruits in a smoothie – you can have oats in various ways. This whole grain is versatile but do you know the amazing health benefits of oats?
Health Benefits of Oats
Whole Grain
Oats or oatmeal is a whole grain. Whole grains help in maintaining your blood pressure levels and blood sugar levels. The high fiber and complex carbohydrates in oatmeal slow down it conversion to simple sugars. Oats contain a dietary fiber called beta-glucan which helps to delay the fall in blood sugar levels.
Low Cholesterol
Oats help you to lower LDL or ‘bad cholesterol’. If you have a high cholesterol problem and have been asked to avoid fried food and oily food – try to add oats in your daily diet. Oats contain a plant content called lignans, which helps in protecting against heart diseases. It is, in fact, is a key ingredient to keep your heart healthy.
Weight Management
The soluble fibers in Oats keep your stomach full longer. When you consume oats in your breakfast you tend to feel full longer resulting in making you take fewer snacks! When you have sugar-laden breakfast, they tend to keep you full for a brief period of time.
Try a Breakfast smoothie with Fruits and Oats that will keep you full for long.
Magnesium keeps Heart Healthy
Oatmeal is also a rich source of iron, magnesium and Vitamin B. Magnesium is a key ingredient for enzyme function and helps to relax blood vessels. Magnesium aids heart muscles preventing heart attacks and strokes. High levels of magnesium enhance body’s proper use of glucose and insulin secretion.
Protects Skin
Oats is not just amazing for your good health, it’s great for your skin too. Oatmeal helps to moisturize and soften skin.
Healthy Oats Recipes
Including oats in your morning breakfast is a good way to start your day on a healthy note.
Classic Overnight Oats Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup (heaping) rolled oats
- 2/3 cup unsweetened milk of choice
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
Directions
- Mix together everything in a mixing bowl
- Spoon this mix into a covered jar or a covered bowl
- Refrigerate for 6-8 hours or overnight
- Bring it to room temperature and enjoy in Breakfast
Add oats in your omelet to make it super healthy.
Add Oats in Pancake
Oats and Banana Blender Pancake
Add Oats in your Cookies and Biscuits
Oats and Banana Sugarless Cookies
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12 comments
nice informative post for good healthy food thanks for sharing
Oats is indeed healthy. In fact the doctor recommended it for my 10 month old grandson when his stomach got upset. Since then his dinner comprises of oats prepared in different forms.
Informative, healthy and such lively pictures
A very informative post. I had never imagined the delicious recipes that can be prepared from it. I will certainly try out some. Thanks for sharing. 😀
Didn’t know about oats in omelette. I do love oats…so simple and yet so versatile.
I also love to include more healthy ingredients in my routine diet, oot is a great complex carbohydrate and had great nutritional value. thanks for sharing these wonderful recipes.
I love oats but I have it as a porridge. I didn’t know it had so many health benefits.
I had tried overnight oats, oats pancakes and oats cookies but not Eggs oats omelette! Do I need to dry roast oats before adding it to my omelette mixture?
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Thank you so much, you can dry roast or use as it is Keerthi.
Such an informative post. I tried oats some time back but didn’t like the taste. Thanks for sharing recipes. Will surely try these.
Great recipe! I’ve been quite a lot of oats recently cause they work great for me when I’m on weight loss. Definitely got to try some of your ideas as well 🙂
Oats looks yummy. Yes seriously thank you for sharing these yummy oats recipes. I really like the idea to Add Oats in Pancake. Sure will try this one.