Is there a large difference in nutritional content between raw oatmeal and cooked oatmeal? It seems that cooking oatmeal makes it 10x larger and harder to eat.
Thanks
Isn’t raw oatmeal dry?
I’m not sure if there’s any scientific reason, but eating raw oatmeal gives me explosive shits like you wouldn’t believe. Cooked, no problem. Obviously, shooting it out at high velocity undigested is not optimal for healthy eating. You’ll know if it does the same to you after you try it.
-Dan
I like to put yogurt or milk and Grow! in my oatmeal. I definitely can’t be bothered to cook it.
Hopefully I’m not killing myself… 
I’ve actually started eating raw oatmeal now that I’m bulking and eating 2 cups of the stuff in the morning. No explosive shits for me as of this writing.
It seems to me that raw oatmeal would be much more difficult to digest. Am I wrong?
I got this from one of Waterbury’s posts a while ago:
Massive protein shake:
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup raw oatmeal
2 scoops Grow!
2 banannas
1 1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup ice
Sometimes I add some strawberries and blueberries.
It’s actually pretty damn good. And it packs a wallop of calories. I usually drink it for breakfast.
Nate
I’ve been eating raw oatmeal for years, and though I don’t recall if I had any shitting issues at first, I definitely have none now.
That being said, I have seen raw oatmeal as a remedy for diharrea…
For raw; are we talking what’s known as “old fashioned” oatmeal?
I usually have the Irish oatmeal, which looks like pellets raw.
[quote]Nate Green wrote:
I got this from one of Waterbury’s posts a while ago:
Massive protein shake:
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup raw oatmeal
2 scoops Grow!
2 banannas
1 1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup ice
Sometimes I add some strawberries and blueberries.
It’s actually pretty damn good. And it packs a wallop of calories. I usually drink it for breakfast.
Nate[/quote]
This is my go-to breakfast every morning. It’s great cuz it’s healthy, gives you what your body needs, can eat/drink it on the run.
I have mine with:
1/4 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup yogurt
1 1/2 cup raw oatmeal
3 scoops Grow!
1 banana
1 cup milk
1 cup cold water
1/4 cup frozen blueberries/raspberries/boysenberries
I break this up into gulping sessions in the morning. So in essence, two meals out of the same container.
mixing all that stuff doesnt give you an upset stomach at all?
[quote]neptune wrote:
mixing all that stuff doesnt give you an upset stomach at all? [/quote]
at least there’s no raw eggs and/or cans of tuna.
Jaysus people. Wot in hell’re ye thinkin’?
I’m thinkin’ a bunch of calories in the morning to help get the day rollin’.
Nate
[quote]Nate Green wrote:
Jaysus people. Wot in hell’re ye thinkin’?
I’m thinkin’ a bunch of calories in the morning to help get the day rollin’.
Nate[/quote]
I guess it’s just the cottage cheese in the blender that’s gettin’ me, mostly.
Cause I put a cup (raw) of oats in my 3 scoops of Grow!.
[quote]I guess it’s just the cottage cheese in the blender that’s gettin’ me, mostly.
Cause I put a cup (raw) of oats in my 3 scoops of Grow!.[/quote]
The cottage cheese isn’t that bad at all, actually. I find that everything else kind of blankets the flavor. You can always use some milk I guess.
Try it out though. It’s not that bad.
Nate
If you’re talking about rolled oats, they’re not raw. They’re steamed and rolled flat, so they’re at least partially cooked.
The raw oats would be steel cut, or whole oat groats. I wouldn’t put those in your shake.
I’m addicted to my ‘raw’ morning oats - 1 - 1.5 cups with cold skimmed milk and a sccop of protein powder. Quick, tasty and really sorts me out in the morning. (dodgy shits? nope) You are right about cooking it up, it’s too stodgy for me and it’s a real bugger to clean the pot afterwards
I have to agree with the Raw oatmeal…For about 3 months I’d been putting oatmeal in my morning shake, and loved it (it cuts down on the cooking time…LOL…)…the only thing was the the blender sometimes left some of the oatmeal unblended, so it seemed like some of it was being wasted)…and then about 2 months ago, I bought a 10 dollar coffee grinder…so now, once a week, I grind up a weeks worth of oatmeal, and flax seeds…and each of them in separate sealed containers.
So my shake ends up being:
1/3 cup ground oatmeal
1/3 cup ground flax seeds
3 large frozen strawberries
1 banana
1/3 cup yogurt
2 scoops protein
10 grams glutamine
Suck that back with the multi-vitamin, and I’m set for the day! (it’s also post workout…cause I workout in the morning)
Either way, it makes little to no difference. Cooking the rolled oats takes some time, but then the cooked oats are faster to eat…uncooked saves cooking time, but are slower to eat (when eaten dry) Just be sure if you eat them dry to chew well and to wash them down with some water, also consider that you’ll have some wedged in all sorts of locations in your mouth afterward that take a while to come out. (or require brushing or at minimum the oh-so charming finger in mouth technique)
That being said, cooked, raw or added to other things…as a replacement for lesser grains, as an enhancer to a variety of foods. It’s extremely hard to go wrong with oats.
The one thing I think people do that I feel is a mistake with oats, and subsequently end up not liking them very much, is over-cooking them.
In my opinion the oats should only go in after the water is boiling (and slightly salted) and only stay in long enough to soak up the water, barely cooking. If the proportions are right this is about 30 seconds to 1 min for quick oats. 3-5 min for full size or ‘slow cook oats’ (preferable) The consistency at the end should be firm. People who have trouble stomaching oats often have an association with the sort of oat paste some people cook that’s sticky and nauseating and slimy.
Oats are generally under appreciated outside the bodybuilding world, people don’t know what they’re missing.
Some people think raw oats are better but it’s almost impossible to get ones that are processed at under 110 deg F anyway, so they are effectively “cooked” by the cutting and processing. (Slicing like in a food processor heats up the food, and at 110 or so (barely warm) is where enzymes are killed).
So, if you go the store and buy them and eat them without cooking them, they are still not “raw” as in a raw fruit or vegetable. You can’t guarantee raw grains unless you sprout them yourself. Some people might have the time for that.
I cook them. I like them better that way.