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So I leaning out now and I've switched from rolled oats to steel cut oats when cutting carbs. I'm looking for some input (SL and Joe and any others).
Steel cut is the whole oat, not rolled flat, just chopped (so to speak). The rolled oat give you more surface area for digestion and absorbability so therefor you most likely receive all the carbs noted on the nutritional info.
With steel cut I'm noticing they pass right through me pretty easily and intact. I'm thinking my body isn't digesting them as efficiently, which in this case, is exactly what I want. I don't want all the carbs, but it fills up my stomach and satiates my appetite. I cook these guys in a Zojirushi rice cooker on Porridge setting and it take about 20 minutes. Now I can tell I'm getting some carbs because I can see the released starch in the oats mixture, but the oat itself is still the same size, shape, only a little softer and that's how it exist too.
So I'm hypothesizing that steel cut would give you less absorbable carbohydrates that rolled oats due to its structure vs. the rolled oat even though you are taking in the same volume and (label wise) same number of carbs per serving.
Steel cut is the whole oat, not rolled flat, just chopped (so to speak). The rolled oat give you more surface area for digestion and absorbability so therefor you most likely receive all the carbs noted on the nutritional info.
With steel cut I'm noticing they pass right through me pretty easily and intact. I'm thinking my body isn't digesting them as efficiently, which in this case, is exactly what I want. I don't want all the carbs, but it fills up my stomach and satiates my appetite. I cook these guys in a Zojirushi rice cooker on Porridge setting and it take about 20 minutes. Now I can tell I'm getting some carbs because I can see the released starch in the oats mixture, but the oat itself is still the same size, shape, only a little softer and that's how it exist too.
So I'm hypothesizing that steel cut would give you less absorbable carbohydrates that rolled oats due to its structure vs. the rolled oat even though you are taking in the same volume and (label wise) same number of carbs per serving.
