Flaipjack Facts – Oats

The main ingredient in a Blackfriars Flapjack is the oat.  Whilst oats have been grown and cultivated by man for over 2,500 years it is only recently with the advance of knowledge about nutrition that oats were recognised as a healthy food.   In fact it isonly since the mid 1980′s that they became more popular  for nutritional reasons. It is now known that oats help reduce cholestoral.

Flapjack Facts – Oats

Blackafriars flapjacks are mainly made from oats.  Interestingly oats are annual grasses, and are used as both for both human and animal nutrition, in addition to other purposes.  Modern oats probably originated from the Asian wild red oat which grew as a weed in other grain crops. Archaeological studies show that oats have been found dating from about 2,000 BC, but these grains were probably simply weed seeds.  It was probably much closer to the birth of Christ before, as the last of the cereals to be cultivated, oats were purposely grown in southeast Europe or Asia Minor. Before being used as a food, they were used for medicinal purposes.

Flapjacks and Coffee

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning coffee break?

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.   Robusta coffee, which is often used in instant (or soluble) coffee, has more caffeine than Arabica coffee.

Flapjack Fact – oats

Blackfriars flapjacks are mainly made from oats which are considered ‘superfoods’ Oats were once considered a weed which grew with barley and wheat.

Flapjack Facts – Oats

Flapjacks are mainly made from oats.  The early history of oats is obscure, but domestication is considered to be recent compared to that of the other grains–perhaps c.2500 During the Bronze Age, the time when horses were first used as draft animals, oats were widely grown in N Europe but were apparently still uncultivated by the civilizations around the Mediterranean.

Flapjack Facts – Oats

Oats are a cereal grain used primarily as food for livestock, especially horses. In Oklahoma most of the oats planted are used for either pasture or baled for hay. Most goes to feed the state’s equine population.