Difference Between Oats and Wild Oats

Oats are a common food in people's daily life. They can be used to make porridge, soy milk or oatmeal, which can provide rich nutrition for the human body. However, recently some health products made from wild oats have appeared on the market. At this time, people are full of questions. What is the difference between oats and the oats we usually eat? What are the differences between them?

Difference Between Oats and Wild Oats

1. Plant species

The biggest difference between oats and wild oats is that they belong to different plant species. Although they both belong to the Poaceae family, oats are a grain crop, while wild oats are a weed that grows in the fields. It is also called bell wheat. This plant can be divided into more than 100 different varieties.

2. Economic Value

There are also obvious differences in the economic value of oats and wild oats. Most of them are planted as food crops, which can bring relatively good economic benefits to people, but wild oats are mostly treated as weeds and removed. There are very few large-scale plantings of wild oats in China. This situation leads to the particularly low economic value of wild oats.

3. Nutritional content

Different nutritional components are also a major difference between oats and wild oats. Oats are a nutritious food crop that can supplement the human body with a large amount of carbohydrates, amino acids and plant protein, as well as a variety of vitamins and minerals to meet the body's normal metabolic needs, and can protect human cardiovascular system. However, wild oats do not have many nutrients that are beneficial to the human body, but some of their varieties can be used as medicine.

4. Medicinal value

There is also a clear difference in the medicinal value between oats and wild oats. Oats are mostly food consumed by people and can supplement nutrition for the human body, but their medicinal value is relatively low. They can only prevent diseases and do not have ideal therapeutic effects on diseases that have already occurred. However, wild oats are different from oats. This plant can be used as medicine, and its medicinal value after being used as medicine is particularly high. It can regulate qi and relieve pain, and can also strengthen yang and waist. In particular, the blood diamond wild oats produced in the Arab region are rare medicinal materials. People purify and process it to make Chinese medicine that can be used clinically to treat a variety of human diseases, and the therapeutic effect is particularly outstanding.