If the meal was high in simple sugars, like a donut, the alertness wore off quickly, whereas if the meal was high in fiber and carbohydrates, like oats, alertness lasted longer throughout the morning.
Spanish explorers claimed to see: " Cities that glistened in white." " Great quantities of maize and oats." " A town of disproportionate size… " " and a chief with gold idols… and other riches" .
Coarse grains such as corn, sorghum, barley, oats, rye, and millet, mostly go into animal feed which by the way is seen by many as a wasteful and inefficient use of fertile land.
Five or six mornings after the visit to the farmer, the boy left the stable with his basket of oats, but came back soon after, looking frightened, with two policemen holding his arms.