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Default Green foam on irish steel cut oats

Dave Smith > wrote:

>On 12/01/2011 8:24 AM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
>> Here's a new one for me.
>>
>> I picked up a bag of organic oats from the bulk bin in a health food
>> store yesterday.
>>
>> I used to use McCanns- I've been using Country Choice for months. I
>> used the same pot& process this morning- but the new oats.

-snip-
>
>The green foam is nothing to worry about. It is the result of enzymes
>reacting with hard water. It has no taste and no ill effects.
>I usually get it with my steel cut oats because I have very hard water.


thanks- I wonder what McCann and Country Choice do to avoid that. We
do have hard water-- but we've been eating steel cut oats 3 days a
week for a year or two-- and 'often' before that. Never got the foam
before.

Jim