Hi Everyone,
Last night at the Low Carb Club we discussed the relative virtues of oats and chia. As I mentioned yesterday, chia seeds provide a lot of nutritional benefit - as not only are they are low in carbohydrates, they are also rich in fibre, omega 3 fatty acids, calcium, selenium and a number of other nutrients, and out-perform oats in many ways, as shown below.
You might be interested in reading this Levels article about oat porridge, in which they outline details of your likely glucose response to porridge. They suggest that you can mitigate this to some extent by adding fat and fibre, however their adice is that for metabolic health its best to avoid grains altogether - and they suggest a chia, flax and hemp pudding as a replacement to oats.
And I can confirm that both Chia and psyllium husk are both gluten-free!
