Seed oats (Avena sativa) are a variety of grain.

Characteristics

The plant is a one year's Rispengras (grass kind) with 15 to 30 cm long, an all-side agile Rispe (bloom conditions), which carries partially again branched Rispen, which lean gently downward. At the point the Rispen carry spikelets with 2 to 3 blooms, by which usually only two are fruitful. Oats are a The grains grew together firmly with the ripe one with the kurzbegrannten deck furs and the Vorspelze. The Spelzen surround the actual grain.

Oats need a damp-cool climate and a regular water supply. Its requirements in terms of the soil are modest.

Contents materials

The components of Avena sativa are:

• 12% proteins
• 5% fat
• 12-14% ballast materials
• 63% coal hydrates

and otherwise still vegetable protein, Phytosterine, alkaloids, Provitamin A, Vitamine B1, B2, B6, Niacin, Biotin, silicic acid, various mineral materials and trace elements. From all usual varieties of grain it contains the highest mineral material content. The high Eisengehalt is comparable with many meat places.

Processing

If oats are to be used for the human nutrition, then first the Spelzen with a are removed and separated with a climbing separator. Subsequently, the grains are absorbed and gedarrt again (dried), in order to prevent a Ranzigwerden due to the high fat content (approx. 5%). Then the grains are cut either to and/or squeezed in a Flockierwalzwerk/Flockenstuhl to flakes.

Cultivation

Outputs (2004):

• Australia: 1,408 million t
• Germany: 1,179 million t
• Canada: 3,488 million t
• Russia: 5,500 million t
• The USA: 1,691 million t
• World-wide: 26,18 million t (with an average yield of 20,1 dt per hectar)

(Source: Statistics [[Food and Agriculture Organization|FAO]]

Health meaning

Oats promote growth, the general organic structure, the firmness of the bones as well as the blood formation. It is used also as child feeding means and after stomach and intestinal operations. The special and easy digesting barness of oats protein and - fat play here a large role.

With kidney illnesses, cycle illnesses and duodenum illnesses. Oats calm the heart down. The plant is also good against tiredness. The regular benefit of oats and/or oats bran, e.g. in the form of rolled oats, can the Cholesterinspiegel of the blood lower. Oats straw baths help against skin injuries and against witch shot; Oats straw becomes also as if strew for animals used. Oats excerpts or oats juice one uses also in the smoker curing. And oats are also a valuable animal fodder with horses and poultry. Products of oats are straw, rolled oats, oats milk, oats flour, different excerpts for the medicine and Furfural, a chemical, which is won from the Spelzen.

History

The earliest proof for cultivation of oats is occupied by the bronze-temporal settlements of building of stakes in Switzerland. Already Teutons estimated oats. The Romans called the Teutons Haferfresser. Today one still finds the syllable "“oats"” in German surnames. That points on the fact that oats for our ancestors played an important role.

Oats came as weeds from the eurasischen Urheimat to Central Europe. After the Second World War the cultivation decreased/went back, partially because of motorizing, which made course horses (when oats consumers) more and more redundant and so that lowered the demand. In the last decades production increased again, since the riding at popularity won.

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