Blending up oats will increase its GI, but so will cooking it (can anyone actually find a GI list that shows whether it was cooked prior to the test. THe latest GI listing in the AJCN dont show much at all
ND, but he’s claiming it lowers the caloric value of oatmeal…which doesn’t make sense to me.
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Can anyone confirm the toxins in raw oatmeal statement?
Couple scoops of vanilla Grow, couple scoops of oatmeal, cottage cheese, frozen strawberries, blend. Breafast of champions.
Ok guys share your raw oatmeal recipes now! i’m intrigued!
at uni i remember mixing raw oatmeal with a choopped banana, a tub of low fat cottage cheese and a teaspon of reduced sugar, strawbery jam! very tasty!
One of my favorite weekend pre-morning workout meals is:
2 scoops chocolate protein
1 cup raw oats
1 banana
2 big spoons of natural PB
Milk or water, some ice
YUMMY!!!
I did a search for “uncooked oatmeal toxins” and did not come up with anything. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but I can’t find anything that would suggest that’s even remotely true anywhere.
I also use lots of raw oats in my shakes. I’m not sure about the logic of the “reducing calorie content by blending and not cooking” statement…I’d like to see confirmation of this also.
My training day dessert is
1 1/2 cups uncooked oatmeal
1 serv choc PP
1 mashed banana
4-5 slopped tablespoons yogurt
mix in big bow, consume.
Yeah,
I’m pretty sure it was that balled hippy doctor, with the newsletter, that was saying this (toxins) - I couldn’t find anything on the web either. Except specific cases of contaminated batches -might be a good idea to wash the oats though.
I’ll holla back, when I get more info.
“Drunk fat and stupid is no way to go through life.”
u mean mercola?
Are you guys using the 5-minute and 1-minute quick oats or just the good old fashioned stuff? does it even matter?
Best breakfast:
3/4 Cup plain fat-free yogurt
3/4 Cup fat-free cottage cheese
1 scoop low-carb Grow
1/2 cup raw oats
3/4 cup frozen blueberries
Cinnamon and Splenda to taste
Mix the yogurt and cottage cheese together with the Grow (I like Vanilla, but Chocolate also works), then mix in oats, then berries. Sprinkle Splenda and cinnamon on top. Tasty and fast.
I even did a search at drweil.com, for “uncooked oatmeal” “raw oatmeal”, and “oatmeal toxins.” Came up with absolutely nothing. I know this guy (Andrew Weil, the bald hippie doctor mentioned earlier) is a tree-huggin’ fruit in most peoples’ minds, but he does know his shit. I don’t think he’s the authority on this by any means, however. Just thought I’d let the oatmeal lovers, like myself, know this.
Oh, and to the person who asked: old-fashioned only. Kiddie oatmeal = cow dung in tiny bags. They do make “quick” old-fashioned oats, however. The only difference is the quick oats have a higher GI. But when you’re throwing them in a blender anyway (as that’s what this thread is about) it really doesn’t make a damn bit of difference.
hell ya Ive been doin it for a while at breakfast time because I have a problem sometimes eating whole foods in the morning. I put a whole cup of old fashioned oats in my protein + banana + 2 cups of skim milk. Once in a while I’ll add instant breakfast just for taste and extra calories and when I just say FUCK IT!
"Can anyone confirm the toxins in raw oatmeal statement? "
You are all probably talking about the high anti nutrient content of oats. Do a search for this and it should come up with something.
Grains and cereals are full of it, namely phytic (spelling?) acid, that can be a problem at large intakes. Several mineral deficiencies (Iron, magnesium, etc) have been shown in populations that have up to 75% of thei caloric intake from cereal/grains.
Personally I wouldn’t eat it raw. The cooking process will at least get rid of some of this anti nutrient content.
CDNSnapper: Personally, I can’t stand 5-minute oats (“old fashioned” or otherwise). I much prefer the good old-fashioned unprocessed “large flake” stuff.
The minute oats cook up into a sloppy goo, which I find disgusting, whereas the others stay as flakes; it’s more like eating cereal. Of course, if you’re blending it doesn’t make much of a difference, but I’m sure the old-fashioned ones are slightly more “healthy”.
I did end up finding some info about the phytica acid content of oats. The source I found recommended “overnight soaking in warm water” to de-activate these anti-nutrients.
So I’m wondering, seeing as soaking a bunch of oats seems to defeat the whole purpose of them being fairly quick and easy, does cooking in the microwave before throwing the oats in the blender acheive the same effect? I would think the heat might have something to do with it, but perhaps I’m wrong and it’s more to do with long-term hydro exposure.
Heat is the solution but I’m not sure the microwave is actually a good choice.
I once came across this research that showed that a significant larger part of the antinutrient content in kidney beans remained active after microwave cooking as opposed to traditional methods so I suspect it would have the same result with oats.
If you however eat refined oats, then the antinutrient content is almost zero because the refinement process gets rid of them, and of most minerals also. OF course, those minerals would have had a poor absorption rate anyway but although you end up with no antinutrients you also end up with higher GI due to the removal of the fiber. You always screwed.
Due to all this and more I have came to the conslusion that grains and cereals are a very poor choice of food for humans, even if they’re extremely convinient.
From what I always understood, you can’t buy raw oatmeal.
Most oatmeal, even minimally processed steel cut, is still not raw. I’ve read Quakers raises the temp to about 110 degrees F, this is enough to kill the enzymes (but not enough to kill bacteria, I don’t know about yeast). Anyway, at 108 degrees F and higher, it’s no longer “raw”.
I know raw foodies sprout their own oats them grind them up with no heat processing (other than that the grinder/blender may induce) in order to avoid this.
I’ve mixed oats in with some aplle sauce before and it was ok