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Oat Digest

About

Oat Digest is an independent publication about everyday healthy eating, wholegrains and breakfast.

What this is

The questions here are ordinary ones: how much fibre you need, whether a particular cereal is as good as its box suggests, what a word on a bread wrapper means. Answers to these are often buried under advertising or written to sell a product. We try to give the answer near the top of the page and show where it came from.

Articles are written by the editors of Oat Digest and credited to the publication. We are not attached to a food brand, a retailer or a health service, and we are not a clinic.

How we check things

We start with UK sources such as the NHS, the British Dietetic Association, the British Heart Foundation, Coeliac UK and official government guidance. Each article links to the pages we read. If those sources disagree, we say so and leave the disagreement visible. Worked examples or sums of our own are labelled as ours.

Guidance does change. Each article shows the date it was published or last reviewed, and the linked source is the place to check for the current position. If you spot a mistake, please tell us.

Not medical advice

Everything on this site is general education. It cannot take your health, medicines or history into account. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant, are feeding a young child or have been given a specific diet, your GP, health visitor or a registered dietitian should be your first port of call.

Guest articles and commercial content

We accept contributed articles, which are held to the same standards as our own. Our write for us page sets out the rules, including how paid or sponsored links are disclosed. We do not name products as recommendations unless we have good reason and can back it up.

Photo credits

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under the licences below. The credit is also shown under each photo where it appears.