Vincent J Quarto
January 21, 2010
Prof. Anca Rosu
Consuming Oats Oats are an agricultural crop grown for its grain and straw in which is grown in weather not subjected to prolonged extreme conditions of hot or cold weather. In the United States our major oat-growing states of the Midwestern (Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) the crop is raised for grain, whereas in the Southern states (Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia) it is used for pasture or a combination of pasture and grain. A good 90 percent of oat growing is used to feed our animals and only ten percent of it is used to produce human foods. You can consume oats in many products, such as the most common is cereals. Cereal brands such as honey bunches of oats, Honey nut O’s, Oatmeal, granola bars, porridge etc and other tasty treats such as oatcakes and oatmeal cookies. General mills produces cheerios in which are made with oats. When General mills market their cheerios product, they use a cartoon image such as the bee to promote its honey nut cheerios. They also use bright colors that represent the cheerios flavoring. For example Apple cinnamon cheerios green box, banana nut cheerios is in a bright yellow box, bright blue box for the frost cheerios. So not only do the bright colors attract your eye but associate with you choice of flavor. One of My favorite products in which you can find oats in is General Mills cereal products. Cascadian farms cereal which is an organic cereal is my favorite brand they distribute. The Cascadian farms are located in Rockport, WA. On there 28-arce farm they grow their own crops and protecting their local ecosystem by using organic methods. They also grow their own organic strawberries, raspberries, hardy kiwis, peppers, corn and pumpkins, which one could imagine would come in handy when it comes to making cereals with various flavors. The oat grain is covered with a hard shell which must be removed before the production of ingredients or consumer foods. Oats that are sent to the mill are green oats where they are cleaned to remove foreign seeds and trash. Cleaned sound oats are then heated slowly prior to hull removal. The heating, drying, or roasting procedures inactivate lipases, make the removal of the shell easier, and create a distinctive roasted flavor to the oat product. Roasted oats are air-cooled and size-graded prior to de shelling.
Whole, cleaned oat groats are not frequently available in the commercial food market. Large-sized groats are excellent for puffing into ready-to-eat cereals. The Oats grown on Cascadian farms journey from the field they are grown on. To the mills that clean cook and ready them. From your neighborhood supermarket shelf, to my bowl and spoon all the way to my stomach. Here in America is not the only place that produces Oats. Oats are produced all around the world. The top five in 2005 according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization were Russia with 5.1 million metric tons, Canada with 3.3 million tons, United States with 1.7 millions metric tons, Poland 1.3 million metric tons, and Finland 1.2 million metric tons. Other big time producers of oats are Australia, Germany, Belarus, china and Ukraine.

Work cited

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th edition, published by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. http://Encyclopedia.com http://www.eatmoreoats.com/aboutoats.html http://Cheerios.com http://cascadianfarm.com/Default.aspx
Definition
Sound Oats; only heat damage; the percentage of “other grains” is only to include the sound or otherwise damaged other grains.