"Northern countries like Finland, Canada, and Scotland have a long tradition of using oats in a variety of foods. Even in these countries, however, the consumption of oats is low in comparison with that of other s. Processing of oats is required to provide edible products that are stable in storage and have good sensory properties. "Grandmothers's" s contain a variety of oat recipes that form the traditional foods that are the basis of current food uses, namely, , bread, fermented oat , and flour made of boiled, lightly smoked oats. Traditionally, oats are used as whole grains. The development of new ingredients, such as various milling fractions (i.e., bran, flour, and hulls) and enriched fraction (i.e., , , and ), started in the 1980s in responed to accumulating evidence of the health benefits of oat ."