Oats
The Oat (Avena sativa) is a species of
cereal grain, and the seeds of this plant. They are used
for food for people
and as fodder for animals,
especially poultry
and horses.
Oat straw
is used as animal bedding and sometimes as animal feed.
Oats are often served as a
porridge
made from crushed or rolled
oats, oatmeal,
and are also baked into cookies
together with wheat
flour. As oat flour
or oatmeal, they are also used in a variety of other baked
goods and cold cereals, and as an ingredient in muesli
and granola.
Oats may also be consumed raw, and cookies with raw oats
are quickly becoming popular. Oats are also occasionally
used in Britain
for brewing beer.
Oatmeal
stout is one variety brewed using a percentage of
oats for the wort.
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