Breakfast, Nutrition

Oats vs Wheat

Do oats come from wheat?

Wahyuni Sapri
Food Newz
Published in
3 min readJul 5, 2022

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Do oats come from wheat? a bowl of cereal oats for breakfast
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Some of you I think already know the difference since they appear in different vocab in English but If I translate both wheat and Oats into my first language, it will appear the same meaning that is “gandum”.

So, I don’t know if both of them actually had different plants in the first place.

If we didn’t alert, the shape of the plants is almost similar too.

Even so, some people think oat is the result of the process of wheat. Let’s dive into detail.

The Plant

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If you see the classifications above, you will notice that oat and wheat come from the same family but they are different genus.

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Because they are in the same family, they look almost similar at glance.

Origins

Oats (Avena Sativa) grow in grows in wet and slightly cold areas like the middle east and Europe while wheat…

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