Category Archives: Oats (Avena sativa)

Oats and Legumes to Control Blood Sugar

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Robert Barrington
Posted in Amylase, Amylase Inhibitors, Amylopectin, Amylose, Beans, Digestion and Absorption, Fibre, Oats (Avena sativa), Peanut, Pulses / Legumes, Retrogradation, Soy, Starch, Whole Grains | Comments Off on Oats and Legumes to Control Blood Sugar

Ready Made Breakfast Cereals

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Robert Barrington
Posted in Bran, Breakfast, Fibre, Oats (Avena sativa), Western Diet, Wheat, Whole Grains | Comments Off on Ready Made Breakfast Cereals

Food Form and The Glycaemic Index

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Increasingly fibre is being seen as essential to human health. This is because the fibre contained within plant foods may be required for the correct digestion and absorption of the starch also within the plant material. In particular, the fibre … Continue reading →

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Antioxidants in Whole Grains

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Robert Barrington
Posted in Antioxidant, Barley, Millet, Oats (Avena sativa), Rice, Rye, Sorghum, Spelt, Tocopherols, Tocotrienols, Triticale, Vitamin E, Wheat, Whole Grains | Comments Off on Antioxidants in Whole Grains

Oats Lower Plasma Cholesterol

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Robert Barrington
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Oat And Bean Fibre: Differences

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Dietary fibre is likely a conditionally essential nutrient. Diets containing carbohydrate must contain fibre or they lead to Western lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes and obesity. In this regard refined crystalline sugars appear to be … Continue reading →

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Whole Grains Decrease Body Fat?

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Grains such as millet, wheat, rye barley, sorghum and spelt are the seeds of grasses, and these carbohydrate and fibre rich foods play an important role in human nutrition. Nutritionally grains are low in lysine, and this makes them an … Continue reading →

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Four Healthy Fast Foods

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Robert Barrington
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Don’t Be Dense, Get Lean

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Robert Barrington

That whole grains are protective of weight gain and obesity is increasingly obvious from the growing body of relevant research in the nutritional literature. Traditional diets such as the Mediterranean diet and the Okinawan diet contain high amounts of whole … Continue reading →

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Beans and Oats: Cholesterol Control

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Robert Barrington

igh plasma concentrations of cholesterol do not cause cardiovascular disease. Instead, both high levels of the small dense low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle and low concentrations of the high density lipoprotein (HDL) particle are associated with cardiovascular disease. This is … Continue reading →

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