One fact that I've learnt over the past few days is that a bowl of porridge for breakfast is a great way to soak up choresterol - see my other thread about choresterol.

As a child in the UK, I would always start the day with a bowl of hot porridge, before trudging off in the cold to school.

Since those days, all manner of processede oats/porridge have become available, and it's not clear to me what porridge oats I should be buying to aid my choresterol-reduction plan.

To put it simply - do 7/11 or Supercheap (Phuket) sell a brand of oats that I can use to make a decent breakfast porridge? - because I am nowhere near to a 'farang' food store, such as Villa Market, (but will make that journey if it is the only option to buy suitable oats).

Simon

Villa Market and Tops have "rolled oats," but not steel-cut oats.

There is really no difference in the glycemic value of rolled, steel cut or quick oats, per Lowans product labeling and I believe that is true, therefore, buy the oats that contains the least sugar and are easiest to prepare - available in most large stores these days.

EDIT: Look for the Lowan brand, Australian, pretty much unadulterated with nothing added, a month supply (1 kg) of their Qucik Oats costs 180 Baht. Half cup (dry) of oats and one cup of full fat milk, microwave on high for 90 seconds, done. Comes in a yellow and red plastic bag.

Makro

i always get mine from tesco lotus

Tesco-Lotus Quick Cooking oatmeal, baht 43 a pack, just about every morning for breakfast.

Mac

Any unsweetened rolled oats but avoid those that are "instant".

Any unsweetened rolled oats but avoid those that are "instant".

Whats wrong with 'instant " ?

Any unsweetened rolled oats but avoid those that are "instant".

Whats wrong with 'instant " ?

They take too long to cook.

Any unsweetened rolled oats but avoid those that are "instant".

Sheryl, seriously, what is wrong with instant oats? I have had them for breakfast for years. It's in a red tin, large size and cost around 100 Baht in Big C and Tesco Lotus. Oh, they are made in Malaysia.

The instant version is more processed, so less fiber and higher glycemic index.

The "quick cooking" only takes a minute. Actually that too is a bit processed (but less so than instant), ideal is just regular oats which will take all of maybe 5 minutes to cook. But some stores carry only "instant" and "quick cooking".

Always get my "Quakers" Oats in Makro, Red tin , handy for other uses when empty too !

Reduced my Cholesterol numbers by 30% when re-tested after 4 months.

Any unsweetened rolled oats but avoid those that are "instant".

Sheryl, seriously, what is wrong with instant oats? I have had them for breakfast for years. It's in a red tin, large size and cost around 100 Baht in Big C and Tesco Lotus. Oh, they are made in Malaysia.

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Any unsweetened rolled oats but avoid those that are "instant".

Sheryl, seriously, what is wrong with instant oats? I have had them for breakfast for years. It's in a red tin, large size and cost around 100 Baht in Big C and Tesco Lotus. Oh, they are made in Malaysia.

The correct answer to your question is determined by the brand that you buy more than the product within that brand, for example:

I eat Lowan brand oats and the nutritional content value and the associated glycemic index values and almost identical, in fact, their rolled oats and quick oat products are identical.

But if you compare that brand with some of the others you'll see that there are wide swings between products and their begins to be almost no comparison between brand names from a health perspective.

Unfortunately, the terms like "quick oats" and others have been bastardized from a marketing perspective and there is no common agreed standard against which products can be measured.

BTW quick oats are a bi-product of rolling and cutting oats.

The instant version is more processed, so less fiber and higher glycemic index.

The "quick cooking" only takes a minute. Actually that too is a bit processed (but less so than instant), ideal is just regular oats which will take all of maybe 5 minutes to cook. But some stores carry only "instant" and "quick cooking".

Why cook it at all? Just add the milk, cinnamon, and Stevia and eat.

I make a delicious muesli by mixed it, uncooked, with yogurt and fruit. Fast, easy, healthy and delicious.