Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitation. Instead of emphasizing one nutrient, we need to move to food based recommendations. What we eat should be whole, minimally processed, nutritious food-food that is in many cases close to its natural form as possible.

For eg: Oats contain a higher count of well-balanced proteins as compared to other types of cereals. A healthy balance of fatty acid provides longevity and good health. It is one of the richest sources of fibre, vitamins, folic acid, and thiamine. For all these qualities choose healthy carbohydrates and fibre source.

 Bagrry's Oats for Atta and White Oats are the products which are highly recommended. They are not only tasty but provide you with all the benefits and accelerate weight loss also.

Bagrry's Oat bran contains about 50% more fibre and soluble fibre than oat meal, making it more effective at lowering cholesterol and helps in digestion. It benefits the person looking for weight loss and cholesterol control.

Bagrry's wheat bran is a source of dietary fibre again prevents colon disease, gall bladder disease, haemorrhoid etc. It is also used for treating constipation, obesity, high cholesterol etc.

Bagrry's oat poha is a super meal. It is a delicious blend of oats that delivers a powerful way to start your day. A fulfilling breakfast snack with plenty of benefits.

Dt. Nidhi Sawhney

Dietician, NUTRIadvice

D-12 Gulmohar Park,

New Delhi – 49

Benefits of Bran and High Fibre

Bran means piece of grain husk separated from flour after milling.

Eg: Oat Bran.

Hard outer layer of cereal grains.

100 gms of Bran gives you 246 KCAL

It has an amazing capacity to absorb water and expand. This bulk fools your belly into thinking you've eaten a lot, so it can shut down your hunger signals.

Moreover, bran fibre requires a bit of chewing. That gives your body time to realize you're full before you shove in more. You complete the fat-fighting breakfast scene if you pour skim milk over that bowl of bran, mix in fresh fruit, and have a glass of juice on the side.

Health Benefits: Bran packs such a wallop of insoluble fibre at one sitting. There's no underestimating the health boost from a daily bowl of bran cereal.  

Constipation: Eat enough insoluble fibre, such as bran, and you're practically guaranteed to avoid constipation -- as long as you increase your fluid intake, too. By absorbing water, bran creates bulk, which stimulates the intestines to contract and move things along.

Eating a high-fibre meal is great for weight loss. High-fibre foods generally require more chewing time, so you're less likely to overeat. Also, a high-fibre diet tends to make a meal feel larger and linger longer, so you stay full for a greater amount of time. No other food packs as much fibre as a bowl of bran cereal. This food is an easy addition to a weight-loss diet.

High fibre makes you healthy and keeps your digestive track fresh.

Daily requirement: 20 – 35 grams a day.

Dr. Neetu Jha

Nutritionist

• Consuming Whole Grains as a part of healthy diet may reduce the risk of heart disease.
• Consuming food containing fibre such as whole grain as a part of healthy diet may reduce constipation.
• Eating whole grains may help with weight loss.
• Eating grain products fortified with foliate before and during pregnancy helps prevent neural tube defects foetal development.
• Fibre helps you to reduce risk of diabetes- insoluble fibre from cereals.
• Diverticulitis- Dietary fibre may reduce your risk of diverticulitis (an inflammation of polyps in your intestine). Soluble fibre may have to slow your body's breakdown carbohydrates and the absorption of sugar helps with blood sugar control.

Nisha Choudhary (M.Sc. F&N)

Sr. Dietician and Manager    

I practise as a nutritionist in Vasant Kunj and have many clients who come to me for weight loss and maintenance programs. It is my moral duty to ensure that they lose weight in a healthy manner without facing any nutritional deficiencies. Weight loss can be achieved only by eating right.

Today each one of us is aware of healthy eating habits but find it difficult to inculcate it in our everyday busy schedule. But Bagrry’s has come out with so many easy options for healthy eating. I personally recommend Bagrry’s products to all my clients for several reasons.

1. Bagrry’s muesli 40 gms satchets are convenient evening snacks. It is hardly 150 calories and is packed with the right amount of protein, carbs and fibre. It keeps one full till dinner time.

2. Bagrry’s oats flour is another product which I hugely recommend. It can be easily mixed with any other whole grain flour to accelerate weight loss. Children who are not fond of oats can have rotis made of oats flour.

3. Bagrry’s Oats for Poha, a new addition, is simply superb. It is an ideal breakfast since it is very high on fibre and low in calories. Not only is its nutritional value high but taste wise also my clients seemed to love it.

4. Bagrry’s oat bran is another product which helps in lowering cholesterol very quickly. It benefits clients who are looking at weight loss and also trying to keep their cholesterol in check.

My clients have hugely benefitted with these products and it has become a permanent part of my diet plans. I completely recommend these products since they qualify in all aspects health and nutrition wise.

Neeta Pradeep

Nutritionist

Nutrijump Health Solutions

Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 

In the modern era of hectic life it is natural to look for some quick breakfast option to make a healthy start of the day and to boost metabolism especially for those who want to keep off extra weight. What can be best than a combination of multi-grains with milk and fresh fruits which is not only most convenient but also nutrient rich for instant energy. Bagrrys B Special Slim Muesli is undoubtedly one of the best products available for a healthy morning and also for weight watchers. Most of the muesli available on supermarket shelves is loaded with extra doses of nuts and sugars. Bagrrys b slim muesli is low in calories (with sugar less than 2.5) than most of the highly advertised breakfast cereals to lose weight. Not to forget that the Glycemic index of the cereal used, has a significant impact on the overall Glycemic index of the diet. B slim muesli is a perfect blend of whole wheat flakes, rolled oats and bran. People who eat more fibre, especially fibre from cereal, are more likely to weigh less. The high protein and soluble fibre facilitates weight loss as it slows down the food movement in your digestive tract making you feel full for a longer time. Most of my clients have found their perfect breakfast partner in b special slim muesli. Smart eating is the need of the hour. With b special slim muesli you can lose good amount of weight when added in your daily diet with minimum exercise and healthy lifestyle.

Also would like to mention how adding fibre to the daily diet has become so easy thanks again to Bagrrys for Wheat Bran and Oat Bran. As a magical broom bran has helped many of my clients to improve their digestive irregularity and relieving constipation, not to forget its vital role in managing weight and removing water retention. Now one can eat roti daily and still lose weight, no need for the boring no carbs diet.

Many crave for salt in their breakfast; masala oats has provided the solution. It’s not only that my clients enjoys them, but their kids also relish the chatpata taste of oats and have actually stopped demanding noodles (including my own kid). Even White Oats can be made into interesting recipes like a thepla / dhokla / missi paratha /cheela / idli ,dosa and nutritious smoothies and shakes. I am glad that we are now taking our kids and family from a refined zone to a healthy one, where good “taste” has met with its long time lost partner “health” in today’s busy and fast moving world. To conclude would like to say that it’s not that we are now becoming more dependent on food from shelves / boxes, but now we have evolved to choose them more wisely and incorporating other naturally occurring food along with them for a healthy and smart India.

Mamta Aharwal

Dietician

Founder

Diet Planner

Oatmeal

With the advent of a majority of lifestyle disorders and health issues, the food choices that we make have become a major concern for everyone.

It’s the 21st century, and we are living a roller coaster life rushing from schools, colleges, offices, etc. to home and vice versa. Food choices have become the convenient ones rather than nutritional ones, and daily nutritional intake and health status of people has gone into drain.

The working mother has to prepare breakfast for her family, rush the kids to schools/colleges, husband to office, pack separate lunches for them and then rush herself to office. In this entire hustle bustle, comes in the Super Food- Oats, as a rescue, which is easy and quick to cook, can be taken in a variety of options and great on nutritional quotient as well. Hence, keeping the mother’s/wife’s concern for family’s health and kids and husband’s taste buds, both happy.

Oats are one of the most nutritious and varied food available in market these days, and most importantly for all age groups. Oatmeal is rich in soluble fibre, which stays in stomach for a long time, making you feel fuller longer. It adds to the daily need for fibre and nutrition in our diet as it is naturally processed with no preservatives, has high protein content than most other grains, and has more antioxidants than broccoli.

For anyone with cholesterol, diabetes, diabesity (diabetes and obesity), High Blood Pressure, Constipation, Gluten allergy, heart problems and weight issues, Oatmeal is the solution for all.

About a cup of oatmeal has about 150 calories,6 grams of protein,  4 grams of fibre and various minerals like iron, thiamine, selenium, magnesium, zinc and phosphorous, giving us the much needed daily boost of nutrition with very low calories.

Now, the bigger question arises that how to make Oatmeal Tasty and with variety?

Firstly, select a brand, which ensures you get your oatmeal with no preservatives. As a nutritionist, my personal favourite is Bagrry’s Masala Oats, Oats Poha, Oats Upma, Oats Rice and plain oatmeal. It has a different crunch to it which I really like.

How to Make Oats Tasty

• Have a 6-8 teaspoon of Bagrry’s Oats with Milk, along with few nuts for adding healthy fats to your meal
• Put 6 teaspoons Bagrry’s Oats in 1 bowl curd, topped with some seasonal fruits and a pinch of cinnamon powder. Yumminess, Healthiness and Probiotics in a bowl. You can also add dried fruits like raisins, cranberries, apricots.
• Mix 1:1 ratio of Bagrry’s oats poha with plain poha, sautéed with some veggies and enjoy Oats Poha, Veggie Oats Kheer . Can add nuts also.
• Mix 1:1 ratio of Bagrrys Rawa Oats with plain Rawa/Suji, sautéed with some veges and enjoy Vege Oats Upma, Oats Idli, Oats Halwa and Oats Dhokla.
• Mix Bagrry’s Oats with plain flour or besan and enjoy oats cheela and oats missi roti with chutney.
• For people with a tangy taste, eat Bagrry’s Masala Oats, topped with extra veggies and chilli sauce.
• For the elderly and people with a sweet tooth, Bagrry’s Oats Porridge is the answer.

As a nutritionist, knowing the health benefits of Oats, I have at least 1 serving of oats in my daily routine in some form of the other and when it comes to Oats, Bagrrys is my choice.

Shreya Katyal

(Dietician)

Owner:  Health and You

A healthy lifestyle that promotes regularity includes choosing foods each day that contain Bagrry's Wheat Bran fibre, eating a healthy diet that includes grains, fruit and vegetables, drinking plenty of fluids and being physically active.

For those who are trying to lose some pounds.

Bagrry's Oats is a health addition to their diet. Oats being very low in calories does not add extra fat to the body and the high fiber content in oats absorbs water and provides a high level of satiety helping stay full for a longer time and keeping hunger at bay. Research shows that a daily consumption of oatmeal also helps prevent obesity and issues of excess weight gain in children.

My clients seem to like Bagrry’s product range.

Reema Verma

Sr. Dietician

Vibes health care

Green Park, New Delhi 

Cholesterol – The Fact File

Cholesterol is one of the most worried about fats these days. Let us understand what exactly is cholesterol and its effects on our body through this fact file.

What is Cholesterol:-

Cholesterol occurs in our body in the form of lipoprotein or lipid and protein complex. The various types of cholesterol are:-

• LDL (low density lipoprotein)
• HDL (high density lipoprotein)
• VLDL(very low density lipoprotein)

• LDL: - LDL is the most harmful cholesterol and thus is considered bad cholesterol. It promotes the process of deposition of cholesterol in the blood arteries and thus reducing the blood supply to organs associated with that artery. After some time this starts reacting with blood cells to form clot which ultimately blocks the artery. So, cholesterol deposition in coronary artery or heart artery is the most dangerous.
• HDL: - HDL is just opposite to LDL. It is considered as good cholesterol. The main function of HDL is to remove deposited cholesterol and remove the blocked arteries.

The desire level of LDL is less than 160mg/dl of blood whereas HDL is more than 60 mg/dl of blood. The total cholesterol must not exceed 200mg/dl of blood.

Imp Note:- cholesterol is important for some vital body functions like vitamin D synthesis , organ cushioning etc. but the amount required is already synthesized in our body so whatever we take externally through diet gets deposited.

People having high cholesterol will have high blood pressure too since cholesterol thickens the blood and hence increases its viscosity. As the viscosity of blood increases it exerts more pressure on the arteries to flow and hence increases the blood pressure.

Cholesterol is very harmful for the health of the heart. The major reason for heart attacks and heart problems is cholesterol. So, it is very important to keep the cholesterol levels in check.

Fibre can help in reducing cholesterol levels of our body. Fibre is of 2 major types:-

• Soluble
• Insoluble

Soluble fibre is the one which is partially digested in our intestines by the microorganisms present there. Therefore it has significance in affecting our blood parameters. Rich sources of soluble fibre are oats, oat bran, barley, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, peas, and some fruits and vegetables.

Insoluble fibre is the one which does not get digested at all in our body and passes out undigested. This type of fibre helps in maintaining a proper bowel movement as it adds bulk to the faeces.

Soluble fibre binds with bile acids which are the products of cholesterol metabolism. Fibre binds with these acids and helps in their excretion and hence reduces elevated LDL levels. 

Oats is the best way to inculcate soluble fibre in one’s routine. Various oats products are available in market to facilitate its consumption. Oats can be consumed in the form of oat meal, muesli with oats, oats atta, oats bran, oats suji, oats idli, oats upma etc.

All these products are easily available with major brands like Baggry’s, etc.

Akshita Aggarwal

Dietician

MsC Food and Nutrition

Clinical Dietician

Bagrry's oats and bran has helped my customer's to achieve  best weightloss results ,also it provides essential nutrients to keep fit.
The range of oats ,Bran ,muesli ,poha all are easy to cook,tasty and healthy. Thanks to Bagrry's.

"Quinoa is a super food and is a good source of fibre and good quality protein. Fibre helps in detoxification which ensures healthy bowel movements, reduces cholesterol levels, blood sugar and Type 2 Diabetes. It is also a complete protein containing all the nine essential amino acids . Protein is essential for helping sustain energy, balance mood, reduce hunger cravings , repair the tissues and muscles in the body to boost immunity and balance hormones. I recommened Baggry's quinoa to all my members especially vegetarians whose protein requirements are not being met.

"Chia seeds are a rich source of Omega 3 fatty acids -Alpha Linolenic Acid (ALA) which is a essential fat that needs to be taken in the diet. Chia seeds have anti-oxidants, fibre and protein  present in good amounts which facilitates in weight loss as well. I consume them regularly and recommend the same to all my members"

"Oats products and the Beta glucan found in them delays the sugar absorption after a meal and thereby enhances insulin sensitivity. It is highly recommended for Diabetics and people suffering from blood pressure problems. It has both soluble and insoluble fibre which supports digestive health as well. Baggry's Oats should be a part of everyone's diet. It is not only a breakfast option but a healthy snack too"