Hannah Fry

So, oats came out looking pretty good from a heart health perspective, especially because of that special fiber, beta-glucan, which can help lower cholesterol when you eat enough of it regularly.

But what about the other concern, blood sugar spikes?

To test this properly, Sarah and I turned ourselves into guinea pigs.

We both ate a bowl of instant oats, the kind you might pop in the microwave in the morning, and we tracked what happened to our blood sugar in real time.

We're going to scan mine and show you what I've got, Sarah.

Here we go.

Wow.

Can you see that?

So Sarah, I just had 10.7 and my number when we scanned it 20 minutes ago was around six.

What does any of that mean?

What's going on?

And it seems to me that that number has shot through the roof in the last 20 minutes when I ate this instant oats.

In fact, I have worn these before.

I don't think I've managed to get above 10 with anything I eat in the last three or four years.

I definitely did used to go above 10 before I started at Zoe.

So that's a pretty impressive spike I've achieved, isn't it?

Now, Sarah, you didn't eat exactly the same thing as me, did you?

You added all those other ingredients onto these instant oats.

Why is your number not the same as my number, Sarah?

And Sarah, I know what we have with our meal is one part, but also it's true that we don't all respond the same as we eat these meals.