Is uncooked porridge(soaked in milk)good for you or not?

Question

oats would be a better name for my instead of porridge for my brekky every morning

Answer 1

Yes, uncooked food is seriously superior to cooked food. It's got all the original goodies in it which heat destroys.

I wouldn't recommend the milk though, as well as supporting the veal industry and making cows suffer, cow's milk protein is thought to be the single most potent carcinogen exposed to man on a day to day basis.

Try it with some raw nut milk, perhaps? Or soya or rice milk?

Answer 2

Yes, uncooked oats are the main ingredient in muesli.

Answer 3

You know - I had that for breakfast all the time when I was a kid. Porridge - or just oats with raisins and cold milk.

Porridge takes a while longer, but it's great in the winter. Oats 'n' milk is faster (it's a bowl of cereal) - and a nice cold breakfast in the summer.

It's not just good for you - it's VERY good for you!!

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Commenting on another reply:

-> "Try it with some raw nut milk, perhaps? Or soya or rice milk?"

I do agree that soy milk or nut milk would be good for you, and as good on your raw oats. But it would merely be a political choice, based on beliefs, not based on fact.

Drinking milk does not support the veal industry. Actually it's a conflict of interests, since calfs drink milk too. You can't both feed the calfs AND sell the milk ...

A cow doesn't have to have a calf to produce milk - only daily stimulation of the mammary glands. It's the same biological fact, that a century or two ago, made it possible for a rich family to employ a woman to nurse their child. If the body thinks it has to feed a child, it will produce milk.

In milk production, they use a milking machine, which pumps out the milk with exactly the same movement a milkmaid or calf would get milk out of the ywer. The cow isn't hurt by it - "only" exploited (which is another political issue).

Cows milk contain a lot of nutrients, that are good for people - however, in the western world,  we are lucky enough have many other sources of the same nutrients, so cows milk is no longer as necessary a stable, as it was 50 or 100 years ago.

-> "cow's milk protein is thought to be the single most potent carcinogen exposed to man on a day to day basis"

Sorry - you're wrong! Frying foods (especially meat, but also vegetables!) is the no. 1 source of carcinogens. Both in the food, but also airborne in the frying process.

In the frying process nitrosamines are formed - and nitrosamines have been proved to cause cancer. Some types of cheese contain trace amounts of nitrite (a type of salt), which is also transformed into nitrosamines in the body.