Well, I appreciate the response, but I’d like a more enlightening answer. Why would I ever eat oatmeal over low-GI fruits?
Quaker quick oats microwaved with twice the right amount of skim milk so that the consistency is perfect after the ground flax seeds go in. Yum.
From what I’ve read, oatmeal does have a high GI, but a low II (Insulin Index). That means that it doesn’t cause you to release insulin, and therefore doesn’t cause you to gain fat.
Oatmeal in natural unflavored form is a great and low glycemic food and also insulin friendly. Oatmeal does not cause a big blood glucose upward shift at all. I tried it with both water and milk and the difference was 91 and 98!! Even tried it with natural peanut butter and went down to 87! Also tried it with honey(one packet single serving) and it was 94! The oatmeal serving was about 60g. From Grocery store name brand uncooked-natural-unflavored-rolled oats!
I’ll have to go with old fashioned, slow cook, funny lookin’ dude on the cover, buy it in bulk, 100% Quaker quality rolled oats. The quality is far superior to those bargain brand store labels. It’s analagous to eating bargain brand whey over a high quality (albeit more expensive) quality protein. You basically get what you pay for. Those instant oatmeals taste like oat pudding…yuck. Lou, you have to remember that milk is mostly water anyway, so adding milk and water will just give you diluted milk. Oatmeal is amazingly versatile. You can add water, milk, oils, fruit, nuts, peanut butter,honey, egg whites, protein powder, cottage cheese…all these are good suggestions. You really should ditch the corn flakes unless you are using them as a postworkout carb source.