Quaker oatmeal question

[slickdadd]

So I went to wal mart and bought some oatmeal. Im switchin to oatmeal breakfasts. Anyway, i see the normal cardboard cylinder thing, and grab it, and im on my way. When I get home I noticed it says 1-minute oatmeal yada yada. I check the nutrition facts, looks right, and i'm cool. This week i got the straight up oats, only distinguishable by the fact it doesn't say 1 minute on the front. Same design, container, everything. I compared the nutrition facts and they are the same. The non 1 minute oats are much more hardy, standard oatmeal, while the other is a little smoother and more fine. Any differences as far as nutrition goes?

 

[Senior Woonaki]

the longer cooking one might have more fiber - just a guess..
i usually put them raw in my whey shake
i bought the same thing - the five minute is brown the i minute is blue....

and it really cooks in one minute - i had 3 servings with splenda yesterday

 

[HANSEL]

The Old fashioned Oats are less processed and will digest a bit slower for you.

 

[HANSEL]

how can it be more processed if the ingrediants say 100% Oats. they both have the same nutrional facts i just switch from time to time for defferent texture thats all, theres nothing processed in it the oats are just cut in half so they can cook faster.

HAve you ever compared Ol fashioned to 1 minute? You can clearly see the quick outs have been run through some kind of mill or something, they are more flakey and weak.

 

[cdownie927]

how can it be more processed if the ingrediants say 100% Oats. they both have the same nutrional facts i just switch from time to time for defferent texture thats all, theres nothing processed in it the oats are just cut in half so they can cook faster.

 

[OXANDRIN]

quick cooking oats are "dehydrated" while the old fashined oats are not

 

[HANSEL]

quick cooking oats are "dehydrated" while the old fashined oats are not

Cool that explains it.

 

[OXANDRIN]

Cool that explains it.

something like that....its more like space food. don't ask me how they do it exactly

 

[spatts]

I actually called them about this. Here's what they told me...

Minute oats are whole oats crushed to minute oat size. In other words, they are coarsely ground. It's not that they cook any faster, it's that they cook faster because they're smaller. If a whole oat were the same size as a piece of minute oat...it would cook at the same speed. It's like taking a 30 minute steak, cutting of a tiny piece of it and calling it a 5 miniute steak, just because it would cook faster due to the size.

It would stand to reason that there would also be some loss of moisture in the grinding process, as well.

 

[cdownie927]

thanks for breaking that down spatts thats like what i said stated above.