Organic Rolled Oats are one of the most nutritious grains that you can add to your daily meals.
They are considered to be a good source of the soluble fibre beta-glucan, which helps to decrease cholesterol in the blood. Other important nutrients found in oats are B vitamins, vitamin E, copper, iron, zinc, magnesium, phosphorous, calcium, a
nd thiamin.
Top Nosh Foods has a great selection of whole grains including organic oats. I first came across Top Nosh Foods at the Northside Markets in North Sydney. What impressed me was the fact that they were willing to let me sample their mueslis and nut spreads without any hesitation. They even opened a packet of organic oats to show me how different the oats that they were selling looked to the ones that I’d just bought at a health food store.
The difference was phenomenal! Their organic oats were a beautiful, well shaped thick cut grain flakes, whereas, what I had in the packet where small broken pieces of oat flakes. You can see their organic rolled oats on the left hand side of the plate; the light cream coloured flakes!
Since then I’ve been buying their oats and I thought I’d share with you why oats are such a wonderful addition to everyone’s diet.
The Organic Rolled Oats that Top Nosh Foods sell have been stablised which means they have been subjected to steam for a short time, before they are then rolled.
These stabilised oats will make a a chewier firmer porridge than unstabilised oats as the flakes remain more whole. However, these stabilised Organic Rolled Oats are the best for making biscuits, multi grain mueslis, or bakes.
A wonderful way to start the morning is with a steaming bowl of fresh oats or in fact multi grains, especially if you are trying to prevent or are currently dealing with cholesterol levels, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, poor immunity, and/or atherosclerosis.
If you wish to read more on the benefits of eating fibre then have a look at this link – http://www.diabetes.ca/Section_About/fibre.asp
Did you know that oats, oat bran, and oat meal contain a specific type of fibre known as beta-glucan, which may help lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease by 16-48%, as well as helping to increase the immune system.
Further, there are studies which have shown that eating oats can significantly help lower blood cholesterol levels and are very good for a diabetic diet as the are a good source of both dietary fibre and soluble fibre.
Another interesting fact is that as mentioned Oats contain high levels of vitamin E which are essential to boosting energy and slowing the ageing process.
Top Nosh Foods have a whole selection of whole grains to choose from and it’s really worth buying from their web site.
