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From: emcat76 on 26 Jan 2006 07:34
Hi,
I've just joined this group because I have made a strange discovery and
want to know what others think of it.
I bought a packet of rolled oats from the supermarket to make some
wheat-free biscuits, made the biscuits, ate a few, and then noticed it
said on the packet "allergy advice - contains wheat gluten". I normally
check ingredients of everything, as I have a wheat-intolerance, but
had no idea some oats are not actually wheat-free.
I phoned the supermarket and asked what this meant and they told me
that of course rolled oats contain wheat because of the rolling
process, when they are rolled in flour! I said that I hadn't checked
the ingredients because oats are oats and you don't expect them to have
any other ingredient. They have refused to give me a refund or any
compensation and suggest that it's my fault for eating them; because
they have labelled the product correctly.
I have since looked on google to see if I can find any reference to
oats being rolled in flour, and nowhere does it mention that fact.
Has anyone else heard of this tradition of rolling oats in flour? Is it
a new thing or has it always been this way? Surely it would be well
known if this was the case? I have been eating oats for years and never
realised that some oats aren't actually wheat-free.
Rolled oats are the ones commonly used for porridge I think, and I've
never had a bad reaction to porridge, so I don't know what to think any
more!!
I hope someone can help with my query, perhaps with more information.
Best wishes,
Em

From: duh on 26 Jan 2006 14:15
On 26 Jan 2006 04:34:04 -0800
"emcat76" <emcat76(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> I bought a packet of rolled oats from the supermarket to make some
> wheat-free biscuits, made the biscuits, ate a few, and then noticed it
> said on the packet "allergy advice - contains wheat gluten". I
> normally check ingredients of everything, as I have a
> wheat-intolerance, but had no idea some oats are not actually
> wheat-free.

I have heard different explanations for this. One theory said that oats
are commonly grown in rotation with other grains so that small amounts
of them are found in commercial oats. Another blamed grain silos or
other food processing equipment for not being cleaned out between crops.
Wheat, oats, barley, and rye are commonly cross contaminated at every
level of the distribution chain. If you are allergic to one, you had
best avoid all of them. You should also avoid American white rice,
because US regulations require that it be "enriched" with contaminated
vitamins.


From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 26 Jan 2006 20:45
> I bought a packet of rolled oats from the supermarket to make some
> wheat-free biscuits, made the biscuits, ate a few, and then noticed
> it said on the packet "allergy advice - contains wheat gluten".
> I normally check ingredients of everything, as I have a wheat-
> intolerance, but had no idea some oats are not actually wheat-free.

Rolled oats in the UK *are* wheat-free.

So far. American shite usually gets here eventually.

See if you can find a magazine to run a story on it. The company's
behaviour seems outrageous.

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From: Julie Bove on 30 Jan 2006 12:48



"emcat76" <emcat76(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1138278844.217282.45130(a)f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
> I've just joined this group because I have made a strange discovery and
> want to know what others think of it.
> I bought a packet of rolled oats from the supermarket to make some
> wheat-free biscuits, made the biscuits, ate a few, and then noticed it
> said on the packet "allergy advice - contains wheat gluten". I normally
> check ingredients of everything, as I have a wheat-intolerance, but
> had no idea some oats are not actually wheat-free.
> I phoned the supermarket and asked what this meant and they told me
> that of course rolled oats contain wheat because of the rolling
> process, when they are rolled in flour! I said that I hadn't checked
> the ingredients because oats are oats and you don't expect them to have
> any other ingredient. They have refused to give me a refund or any
> compensation and suggest that it's my fault for eating them; because
> they have labelled the product correctly.
> I have since looked on google to see if I can find any reference to
> oats being rolled in flour, and nowhere does it mention that fact.
> Has anyone else heard of this tradition of rolling oats in flour? Is it
> a new thing or has it always been this way? Surely it would be well
> known if this was the case? I have been eating oats for years and never
> realised that some oats aren't actually wheat-free.
> Rolled oats are the ones commonly used for porridge I think, and I've
> never had a bad reaction to porridge, so I don't know what to think any
> more!!
> I hope someone can help with my query, perhaps with more information.
> Best wishes,

I don't know about the explanation from the grocery store. This is the
first time I've heard of that. I do know that because of the way most
grains are grown, transported and processed, there is no way to avoid cross
contamination. My daughter is allergic to both wheat and gluten so she
avoids oats.

--
See my webpage:
http://mysite.verizon.net/juliebove/index.htm


From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 31 Jan 2006 12:42
>> I phoned the supermarket and asked what this meant and they told me
>> that of course rolled oats contain wheat because of the rolling
>> process, when they are rolled in flour!

"Rolled" means they are flattened between heated rollers. There's
no earthly reason to expect flour to be involved in the process.


> I don't know about the explanation from the grocery store. This is
> the first time I've heard of that. I do know that because of the way
> most grains are grown, transported and processed, there is no way to
> avoid cross contamination. My daughter is allergic to both wheat and
> gluten so she avoids oats.

People with gluten sensitivity will usually have problems with oat
gluten as well as wheat gluten. Cross-contamination on the scale
you're talking about here isn't very important - there will only be
a very small proportion of wheat ears harvested in a field of oats,
and hardly anyone has a severe allergy to wheat while tolerating
oats.

Cross-contamination between maize, gluten grains, and rice has much
more serious consequences, but it can't easily happen on the farm, so
it's easier to trace it to a specific incident of sloppy handling.

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