Oat meal

• Oats grow on stalks, like other grasses used for food, with the kernels more widely distributed along a looser tree-like framework. 
  

• When harvested, the oats must have their extremely hard hulls removed before they can be sold, either whole as oat groats or milled as rolled oats. 

• Oat groats are said to be quite tasty, although they require a long cooking time. Sometimes, oat groats are loosely cracked and used in breakfast porridge. 

• Rolled oats play a starring role on the table in oatmeal, although they are also used to add texture to bread, and other baked goods.

• The common oat (Avena sativa) is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other grains). 

• While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed. 

• Oats make up a large part of the diet of horses and are regularly fed to cattle as well.

• Oat grains in their husks Oat plants with inflorescences.

Oat Meal analysis on a dry matter basis (%):

Storage / Processing 

• Stores well in cool dry conditions.

• Material to be stored and transported in compliance with UFAS code of practice.