Ingredients
- 1 cup Flannerys Own Organic Oat Bran
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup corn oil
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 egg whites
- 3 ripe bananas mashed
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup chopped dates
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Preparation
- Grease a loaf tin with oil and dust generously with flour, or use baking sheets.
- In a bowl, combine oat bran, flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl with electric hand-held mixer on low speed, beat corn oil with the brown sugar until well blended. Beat in vanilla, egg whites, mashed bananas, and milk; beat for about 1 minute, until well blended.
- Stir in dry ingredients. Mix in the dates and chopped pecans.
- Spoon into baking tin, smoothing top. Bake on centre shelf at 180° for about 40 minutes.
- Remove from oven and invert cake onto a wire rack to cool.
Nutritional Information
Oat bran is the outer husk of the oat grain. The bran of grain is normally discarded during the milling process, which is unfortunate, since it contains the bulk of the dietary fibre of the grain, along with a large amount of useful minerals. Oat bran is a very concentrated form of fibre.
High-fibre, low-fat oat bran lowers cholesterol levels at a fraction of the cost of drugs. To lower cholesterol levels, oat bran must be eaten daily, according to recent studies.
The oat bran needs to be in your system every day along with the cholesterol if you want to get the maximum lowering effect. Studies have shown the more significant lowering of cholesterol - up to 15 percent - comes when 100 grams of oat bran are consumed every day. That is approximately equal to one-third of a cup of oat bran eaten twice a day.
Oat bran, like all cholesterol-lowering agents, is most effective when it is consumed in conjunction with a low-fat, low-cholesterol, high-fibre diet.