On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 3:58:56 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:54:17 -0700 (PDT), "
> > wrote:
>
> >On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 5:30:59 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 06:15:50 -0400, Gary > wrote:
> >>
> >> " wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Oats have the ability to lower cholesterol and decrease sugar spikes plus
> >> >> making you feel full longer.
> >> >
> >> >I wonder how healthy a bowl of oatmeal is by the time you add
> >> >the raisins, brown sugar and butter?
> >> >
> >> >Not talking about you Joan, just Cindy and I.
> >>
> >> Not that healthy probably, but oats in themselves are.
> >>
> >The raisins would be healthy and maybe the butter but brown sugar probably
> >is not that great as far as healthy goes. But sure does make that wallpaper paste taste good!!
>
> Butter would depend if you have a cholesterol problem.

There's some thinking that simple carbohydrates affect serum cholesterol
more than butter does. In any event, my cholesterol is low.

> Aren't raisins
> mainly sugar?

All fruit is mainly sugar. Raisins are high in fiber, iron, calcium, and
boron (which assists in calcium uptake).

With 1 teaspoon of brown sugar in my oatmeal, the raisins taste tart.

> Actually, the only oats I ever eat are a filler or
> binder in fish or vegetable patties.

The only patties I eat are hamburger patties. That's why I'm conspicuously
silent during discussions of crabcakes, etc. Unless you count pakoras, which
I don't eat very often.

Cindy Hamilton