Sport Grinding oatmeal in a coffee grinder?

[s-one]

For breakfast I make a smoothie with protein powder, soy milk, some fruit, ice and ground up oatmeal. What I essentially do is grind up the oatmeal in a coffee grinder to a fine powder. What I wanted to know is does grinding the oatmeal to a powder loose the "good food" traits of eating oatmeal whole? You know, the lower cholesterol, low sugar spike, GI tract stuff?

Thanks,
s-one

 

[tjl]

Shouldn't change anything other than possibly glycemic index, but glycemic index will already be affected by mixing with the other ingredients in the smoothie.

 

[s-one]

ahhh.. well I didn't think of that tjl. Thanks for your input.

 

[theGOOCH]

Yes, the glycemic index will be higher, but you won't lose any of the nutrition

 

[s-one]

Thanks theGooch