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Oats vs Ground Oats

  • 30-09-2013 12:49PM
    #1
    dipdip
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    Is there any nutritional disadvantage to eating ground oats/oat flour/Ready Brek to eating the oats in their flakes?

    I am not a huge fan of oats and dislike the texture of porridge, but love them ground and mixed with milk, or used to make oat pancakes.


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  • #2
    Stench Blossoms
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    No I don't think there's any disadvantage.


  • #3
    Hatfry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭Hatfry


    dipdip wrote: »
    Is there any nutritional disadvantage to eating ground oats/oat flour/Ready Brek to eating the oats in their flakes?

    I am not a huge fan of oats and dislike the texture of porridge, but love them ground and mixed with milk, or used to make oat pancakes.
    No difference if you grind them yourself or make sure the product you're using is 100% oats.

    The only difference is ground oats will absorb moisture more readily than whole.


  • #4
    dor843088
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    If im not mistaken I think the likes of ready break would have less fibre indicating its not whole oats that are used and a slightly more refined product. If that bothers you put your oats in a blender and blend them into a dust . Great for shakes and smoothies or throw some in a shaker with a scoop of protein for great portable meal .


  • #5
    dipdip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭dipdip


    Great. I'm happy out.

    Ready Brek is a mixture of ground oats and oat flour; the only added ingredients are vitamins etc. Considering the price of oat flour (astronomical) and that I don't have a blender or food processor, Ready Brek is a reasonably good option. Cheers.


  • #6
    n2o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭n2o


    From http://www.weetabix.co.uk/products/cereals/ready-brek-original
    Ingredients

    Ready brek Original contains the following ingredients (listed in order of amount used).

    Wholegrain Rolled Oats (60%), Wholegrain Oat Flour (38%), Calcium, Niacin, Iron, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B6, Thiamin (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12.

    It's all wholegrain


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  • #7
    KH83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭KH83


    n2o wrote: »
    From http://www.weetabix.co.uk/products/cereals/ready-brek-original



    It's all wholegrain

    Well one benefit if trying to loose weight, your body puts more work into trying to digest raw oats rather then ground which means more energy needed and more calories burned. But this is very minimal


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