If you had to sniff out the next big foodie trend, you probably wouldn’t visit a hospital cafeteria for gourmet inspiration.
But that’s exactly the origin of uber trendy overnight oats, an idea born of a Swiss doctor back in 1900 who was looking for an easy way to serve up lots of nutrition to his hospital patients.
The original meal, muesli, roughly translates to “mash-up” and that’s what overnight oats are: a mix of raw oats, soaked overnight in lemon water, milk, or yogurt, and then served, uncooked, with fruits and nuts. Foodies swoon over the creamy, pudding-like consistency; we’re swooning over the weight loss benefits. Grab a spoon and a mason jar, and consider all healthy reasons to make overnight oats a breakfast (or anytime!) staple:
YOU’LL FEEL FULLER AND BURN MORE FAT.
Carbs are like online dates. They’re not all bad news; you just have to know what you’re looking for. And raw oats, as they’re one of the best sources of resistant starch, are the Mr. Right of the high-carb breakfast brigade. The weight loss-friendly starch digests verrry slowly and triggers the release of digestive acids shown to suppress the appetite and speed up calorie-burning. In fact, swapping just 5 percent of daily carbohydrates for resistant starch could boost the metabolism by 23 percent, according to one study.