Calorie oatmeal with milk and its composition

Today, many are concerned about healthy eating. And the more the quality of food falls on the shelves of stores, the more acute this issue is. Oatmeal proven by many generations comes to the rescue.Boiled with milk, it is not only tasty, but also useful, which is especially important for people with various diseases, as well as for those seeking to lose weight.

Oats are an annual plant from the family of cereals. In ancient times, it was considered feed for horses and other cattle. Especially willingly for this purpose it was used in China and Mongolia. And this is not surprising. Initially, oats were perceived by people as an ordinary weed. Although the representatives of the Germanic peoples and the Scots did not ignore such food. They were happy to eat porridge themselves.

Oatmeal belongs to the category of extremely valuable in content products.

It seems to be specially invented to saturate the human body with components, without which it cannot fully function.

• vitamin A;
• B vitamins, including such rare as B6 and B12;
• vitamins E, C, K, PP, H;
• folic acid;
• micro and macronutrients (from iron to zinc).

As part of the oatmeal a lot of fiber, which helps gently cleanse the stomach, but at the same time provides a feeling of satiety. The gut with this product works easily and without fail. With such a meal you can not be afraid of constipation.

Due to its unique composition, oatmeal helps remove toxins from the body, heal stomach ulcers and gastritis. It helps regulate cholesterol levels in the blood. Proved its positive impact on blood pressure readings. The presence in the product of elements such as magnesium and potassium indicates the benefits of this product for the heart and blood vessels.

With the inclusion in the menu of milk oatmeal improves the appearance of the skin, increases immunity. Oatmeal has a positive effect on the nervous system, good effect on memory. It is useful to have problems with the thyroid gland and the liver. Such food "prescribed" for diseases of the pancreas and gall bladder. It also benefits those suffering from iron deficiency in the body.

Take advantage of the "wealth" of oatmeal in milk can not only people who are intolerant to milk protein or cereal crops. It is also worth remembering that no matter how useful and easy for digestion or this food was, if you use it excessively, you can get extra pounds. The reason for this is the starch contained in the product. If it enters the body in excess, then during processing it is converted into fat, deposited on the internal organs.

In addition, people who have sat down on oatmeal, eating it daily in considerable doses, run the risk of reducing the absorption of vitamin D and calcium. In this case, the element that provides the strength of bones, is washed away from the body, making the skeleton fragile.

For weight loss and health improvement oatmeal is cooked according to various recipes. It can be cooked with low-fat milk or coconut milk. They add apples, bananas, fresh strawberries, blueberries and other berries, boiled with raisins and other dried fruits. It all depends on what is at hand, as well as how rich the fantasy of one who stands behind the stove.

Depending on the recipe, not only the taste but also the calorie content of the porridge changes. If in a dry product there are 310 kcal per hundred grams, then in the finished oatmeal this figure is completely different. For those who are on a diet, this state of affairs is sometimes of fundamental importance. At the same time, the indicators of caloric content of oatmeal on skimmed or coconut milk also differ markedly, given the fact that there are 187 kilocalories per hundred grams of coconut milk, and only 30 of them are the same amount of skimmed milk

At the same time, a hundred grams of plain milk oatmeal without sugar contains almost 80 kilocalories, and with sugar it is already more than a hundred. (In a hundred grams of “normal” milk porridge with sugar, you can find almost 15 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fat, and 3 grams of proteins).

Even more calories in milk porridge with sugar and butter - 135 kcal per hundred grams. (These 19 grams contain almost 19 grams of carbohydrates, 5 grams of fat, and 4.5 grams of proteins). In a small portion, which fits in a regular plate, it may be about two hundred kilocalories.

Taking into account these indicators, oatmeal with milk in almost any of its variations is attractive to people concerned about their health and body shape. It is no coincidence that there is an oatmeal diet, which, unlike many others, is not harmful to health and is applicable to the use of people of different ages. For seven days of this "diet course" you can get rid of a dozen extra pounds. But to carry out such attacks on excess weight without damage to health can be no more than once every six months.

If for healthy men and women food is divided into tasty and tasteless, then for people with diabetes, each product becomes either a salvation or a factor that worsens the state dramatically. To enroll a product in the first or second category, one has to use such a concept as the glycemic index. They determine the effect of certain foods on indicators of blood sugar levels in humans.

Oatmeal is not only safe, but also a useful product for diabetics. Oatmeal cooked in milk has a low glycemic index - only 60. This is within the average. From such food sugar grows moderately.

In the next video you will find several recipes for oatmeal with milk.