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The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural). Oats appear to have been domesticated as a secondary crop , as their seeds resembled those of other cereals closely enough for them to be included by early cultivators.
Avena is a genus of Eurasian and African plants [5] in the grass family.Collectively known as the oats, they include some species which have been cultivated for thousands of years as a food source for humans and livestock. [6]
Avena fatua is a species of grass in the oat genus. It is known as the common wild oat. This oat is native to Eurasia but it has been introduced to most of the other temperate regions of the world. It is naturalized in some areas and considered a noxious weed in others. [2] [3] [4]
(middle) sorghum, maize, oats (bottom) millet, wheat, rye, triticale. A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize. Edible grains from other plant families, such as buckwheat and quinoa, are pseudocereals.
The oat grains are de-husked by impact, and are then heated and cooled to stabilize the groats, the seed inside the husk. The groats may be milled to produce fine, medium, or coarse oatmeal. [1] Rolled oats are oats that have been steamed, flattened by a "flaking roller", and dried.
A type of naked oat called pillas, pilez, or pil-corn in the Cornish language and dialect of English [6] may have been the same species as Avena nuda. John Ray calls it Avena minuta. [7] Well known in the 17th century it was commonly grown in Cornwall as late as the 18th and 19th centuries. [8] The last known crop was harvested at Sancreed in ...
New tests done by the Environmental Working Group have found 21 oat-based cereals and snack bars popular amongst children to have "troubling levels of glyphosate." The chemical, which is the ...
Avena byzantina, red oats, is a species of cultivated oat native to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, the Transcaucasus, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. [2] Cultivated for thousands of years, it is better suited to warmer conditions than white or common oats ( Avena sativa ), but is often sown as a no‑till winter crop.