Are Packaged Oatmeals Cooked in Some Way Already? the Instant Kind!?
I was told by a friend that she mixes dried packaged oatmeals in her plain yogurt (with raisins, mangoes, prunes, seedless grapes in it, too) in the morning as breakfast.
So I wanted to know: are the oatmeals cooked if they came from a "READY IN 3 MINUTES IN A MICROWAVE!" package?
Are you eating RAW oatmeals?
Instant oatmeal is steamed and re-dried more than the other, after rolling and flattening the oat kernel, it is either package for long cook or large flake type, then 3-5 minute is steamed to but not as much as the instant types, they are cooked and the sugars and flavours added then dried and package, she is not eating raw oats, that is for horses, all have some modification done, some more than others.
Cookies that are in a packaged are already baked before they are packaged so you are not eating anything raw.. The manufacturer more than likely used oats when making them than the "3 minute oatmeal".
well you can eat raw oats – some cereals come with oats in them that you don’t cook such as muesli.
oatmeal is not precooked – if it was it would look like it does when you make porridge as it goes soft and breaks up when it cooked.