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"Avena sativa, Poaceae, Common Oat, infrutescence; Stutensee, Germany.
The fresh aerial parts of the blooming plants are used in homeopathy as remedy: Avena sativa (Aven.)"

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“General Mills makes Cheerios a serial business” -- MIKE HUGHLETT , StarTribune (04 March 2012)

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rolled oats before cooking

Steel Cut Oats also called Scottish Oats or Irish Oats are groats (whole oat kernels) cut into two or three pieces

Wikipedia:

oat

NOUN:

A widely cultivated cereal grass, Avena sativa.

The oat stalks made good straw.
Any of several similar grain plants.

The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats,
(often pluralized) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.

ETYMOLOGY:

Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-Germanic *aitōn (“swelling”) (compare Old High German eiz 'abscess', Dutch etter 'pus', East Frisian eitel 'fast, raging', Old Norse eitill 'nodule'), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eid- 'to swell' (compare Latin aemidus 'swollen, protuberant', Old Church Slavonic jadŭ 'poison', Ancient Greek oidéein 'to swell', Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum) 'to swell', այտ (ayt) 'cheek', Sanskrit índu 'water drop'). For sense development, compare Ancient Greek oídax 'unripe fig' from oîdos 'swelling, tumor'.

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Oat

Avena sativa
Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
	Angiosperms
	Monocots
	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Avena
Species:	A. sativa

Binomial name

Avena sativa
L. (1753)

Wikispecies

Humans took 1000 years to tame wild plants, Science Online, 23 Apr 2004
The Food Timeline – Lynne Olver, Morris County Library NJ
Oatmeal - Everything You Wanted to Know about Oats -- FORMERfatguy
Stone Age humans ate porridge on holiday, Science Online, 28 Jun 2004
Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
USDA Economic Research Service
- Crops
What Are The Advantages Of Steel Cut Oats -- ifood.tv

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Image of Zea mays from Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz (1885).

Anonomous
(1899)
Henry Ford Museum
This poster was created at a time when stories about medieval Scotsmen fighting for independence were popular.

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Quaker Oats
(1877)

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Quaker Oats Vintage Label Fabric Block 5x8

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Harvesting of oats in Jølster, Norway ca. 1890.
(Photo: Axel Lindahl / Norwegian Museum of Cultural History)
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