Is it healthy to eat uncooked oat flour?

[Bob A. Booey]

I know that rolled/quick/instant oats are steamed during their production, which apparently makes them more digestible.

I'm wondering if oat flour goes through a similar process.  If not, does that make it harder to digest?

Thanks

(BTW great community you guys have here)

[Princess L]

I know that rolled/quick/instant oats are steamed during their production, which apparently makes them more digestible.

I'm wondering if oat flour goes through a similar process.  If not, does that make it harder to digest?

Thanks

(BTW great community you guys have here)

Oat flour is just pulverized oats.  You can make your own in a food processor.
Why would you want to eat raw flour?

[Bear03]

Oat flour is just pulverized oats.  You can make your own in a food processor.
Why would you want to eat raw flour?

it is? so there's no leavening agent or anything like that?

[Migs]

Not sure why you would want to eat uncooked oat flour.  Are you adding it to a shake to get some complex carbs in?  The other post was correct, you can make it your self.  I would recommend that after youpulverize it (if amking large amounts) i would keep it in the fridge.  It helps to preserve it.

[Forseti]

Oat flour has a higher GI than unprocessed oats.  You'd be better off eating old fashioned oats.

[Princess L]

it is? so there's no leavening agent or anything like that?

Nope.  Oat flour has little to no gluten, so it must be combined with a leavening agent for those applications that require a flour to rise.