Feeding oat meal is obtained in the manufacture of rolled oat groats or rolled oats and consists of broken oat groats, oat groat chips, and floury portions of the oat groats, with only such quantity of finely ground oat hulls as is unavoidable in the usual process of commercial milling. (Groats are grain from which the hulls have been removed) (AAFCO, 2003) Feeding oatmeal is a fractionated grain, which does not contain the nutritional value of whole oats, and is therefore not recommended for our pets to consume.