Oat bread

We think the vast majority of the inhabitants of our latitudes are familiar not from the hearsay with oatmeal and the useful, even healing properties that the product has. Other oat products, such as oat bread, also have no less beneficial properties. Oats refers to cereal annual plants that are cultivated in various climatic zones, since this agricultural crop is distinguished by its unpretentiousness and excellent adaptation capabilities.

In some countries, due to the harsh climate, it was oats, not wheat, that have long been considered the main and most important cereal. At the same time, oats for a fairly long period of time formed the basis of the diet of the ancient inhabitants of planet Earth. Currently, science knows about 40 different types of oats that are cultivated. typically in European temperate climates or in the territories of the Americas as well as South America.

The most common in agriculture is a species of plant called Oats sowing or common (Avena sativa). Mongolia and some northern provinces of China are considered the birthplace of oats. Although oats began to be cultivated only by the beginning of the second millennium even before our era (which is much later than wheat or barley), the new cereal culture was able to very quickly win no less honor and respect. the older ones in age are cereals. Back in ancient Greece, doctors used the unique properties of oats as a medicine.

According to researchers, the first oat bread began to be made in the UK. In English historical documents dating from 779, records of the manufacture of cakes from oatmeal were found. For a long time, such ancient oat bread formed the basis of the diet of the people of Wales, as well as Scotland and Ireland. Currently, oat bread, like other oat products, is in high popularity and demand. This is primarily due to the unique vitamin-mineral composition of both oat grains themselves and cereal derivatives, for example, oat bread.

The chemical composition of oat bread contains the entire vitamin alphabet (A, B, C, as well as E, K and PP). In addition, oat bread is enriched with a number of useful natural compounds such as selenium, manganese, zinc, iron, sodium, phosphorus, as well as potassium and calcium. It is noteworthy that store oat bread is produced from a mixture of oat, rye and wheat flour. You can bake oat bread at home using ordinary oats and oat flour. Believe me, homemade oat bread will become tasty, and what is the main healthy food in the daily diet of your whole family.