Steel Cut Oats

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Originally Posted by CigarNut

Regular oatmeal is flat pieces of oat that have been steamed and rolled flat ala Quaker Oats that you cook up. Steel cut (sometimes called Scottish or Irish) oats are typically cylindrical pieces of oat -- the whole oat or groat, with the husk removed cut into two or three pieces -- that take more time to cook, are more flavorful, and have more texture.

Both are very good.

Exactly right Michael. Also because of how it is not as processed when the Steel Cut Oats is digesting it tends to release the sugar from the starch at a slower pace. What that means is that there is not that sudden drop in blood sugar as you would get when eating regular oatmeal.