Oats and gluten intolerance

[Guest guest]

This came across the celiac list ... I thought it was interesting.

I don't care much about dirt in oats, but I've been avoiding

oatmeal because " they say " it is contaminated with wheat.

Apparently it is, the Quaker folks agree:

http://www.producer.com/articles/20040129/news/20040129news15.html

Consumers notice when there is more in their bowl than oatmeal. For example, the

company gets letters if just a bit of barley slips in. The company requires 96

percent sound cultivated oats, and allows up to one percent canola, one percent

wheat, one percent barley and one percent wild oats.

But even that would be too much for people who are gluten-intolerant, Roskens

added.

The latest research is that oats are ok to eat IF they are not contaminated, but

oats and wheat are the same

size and the sorters can't sort out the wheat from the oats -- they grow in the

same fields

and are shipped in the same trucks, so they get mixed.

-- Heidi