Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

Today, we're taking a closer look at one of the world's favorite breakfasts.

Depending on who you ask, oats are either a superfood or a source for concern.

Either a great way to get fiber or a worrying blood sugar spiker.

So what's the truth?

Are oats a smart start your day or something to be cautious about?

Professor Seri Berry joins me to dig into the science.

What does it really say about oats?

What are oats?

And what happens to them before they arrived in my bowl?

Yeah, so oats are a type of seed or a whole grain that comes from the oat grass.

And this is called the Avena Ceteva plant.

And I hope I pronounce that correctly.

They're very much like a wheat kind of plant and they seed is encapsulated within this hull which is like the kind of shell and what happens is that is removed because you

wouldn't be able to eat that shell.

And what you're left behind is with the oat grain or the oat seed.

And that consists of this outer bran layer, which is slightly brown-orangey,

which is what you sometimes see in your oat flakes.

You see a little specks, don't you, of this kind of brown and orange.

And that's from this outer skin. And then within that outer skin is the main part of the

oat, which we call the endosperm, and it's within that endosperm that contains all of the

starch, so all of the carbohydrate, as well as some fibre and as well as some protein. And then in the

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