Rolled oats
Name Variations[]
- oatmeal
- rolled oatmeal
- old-fashioned oats
- old-fashioned oatmeal
- flaked oats
- flaked oatmeal
- oatflakes
About Rolled oats[]
Wikipedia Article About Rolled oats on Wikipedia
Rolled oats are oat groats that have been rolled into flat flakes under steel rollers. Rolled oats sold as oatmeal usually, but not always, have had the tough bran removed. They have often been lightly baked or pressure-cooked. Thick-rolled oats are large whole flakes, and thin-rolled oats are smaller, fragmented flakes. Oat flakes that have simply had the bran removed can be cooked and eaten as "old-fashioned" oatmeal, but more highly fragmented rolled oats absorb water much more easily and therefore cook faster, so they are sometimes called "quick" or "instant" oatmeal. Oatmeal can be further processed into coarse powder, which, when cooked, becomes a thick broth. Finer oatmeal powder is often used as baby food.