Oats for Breakfast keeps you Healthy and Fine

An Oat meal  offered from a place producing high quality Oats. And if you are planning to come for breakfast  here make sure you come with a big spoon  considering the size of the breakfast  was  so huge  that a small spoon could prove your efforts futile to eat them. The unusual feat was achieved during Agriculture in the City's opening ceremonies at The Forks on Friday. At 327.5 kg, the record-setting batch eclipses the previous mark of 171.9 kg, which was set in Manchester, England.

The goal of the event was to encourage as many people to get into the habit of eating breakfast. Breakfast is   a very   important routine which determines your energy levels and nutritional requirements for the day. Dietary experts believe that breakfast   is crucial as one tends to have this food after   the previous night’s supper. So a cool seven to eight   hours might have elapsed  after having a good solid intake. Hence  Breakfast  should be taken as healthy as possible as it constitutes a  main meal of the day.  Further the event  also brought to focus  the work of Manitoba’ Oat growers ,  processors  and raise the awareness about Canada’s  Oat  research.

Dr. Nancy Ames a research scientist was excited about the record as the event  highlighted on the thousands of oat producers producing high quality oats  and the nutritive value of oats  included in the breakfast meal. Manitoba being an  agricultural hub of Canada was more than happy to support the record. Once dozens of liters of water came to a boil in a 400-litre pot, participants added about 68 kg of locally-grown oats, which were processed in Portage la Prairie at Can-Oat Milling, a division of Viterra. With non-stop stirring, it took about 12 minutes for the porridge to thicken and become table-ready. Samples were given to the students and visitors. The rest was given to two inner-city shelters. Agriculture in the City is a free, three-day event at Forks Market, which concludes Sunday and aims to educate city folks about food science and farming. The largest bowl of oatmeal  was served to about eighty high school students attending Agriculture in the Classroom’s Made in Manitoba Breakfast as well as members of the general public. Leftover oatmeal was donated to Siloam Mission and Agape Table. 

 The event was sponsored and organized by a committee of stakeholders from the Manitoba agriculture industry, including: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in partnership with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Agriculture in the Classroom, Keystone Agricultural Producers, the University of Manitoba, the Manitoba Eggs Producers and the Manitoba Pork Council. 

The Largest Bowl of Oat Meal weighed 327.5 Kg and was set by  Agriculture and Agri Food Canada  at Winnipeg, Canada on March 20, 2010.