Oatmeal Brands With and Without Glyphosate — Madison Mae (2024)

Oatmeal for Breakfast... With a Side of Glyphosate? I see so many health and wellness bloggers who eat oatmeal for breakfast… EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I’m always so confused since it is a readily known fact that oats are contaminated with high levels of glyphosate. The same chemical that has been shown to cause cancer. And you may be thinking, well my oats are organic! Even organic oats have been found to have high levels of glyphosate. Organic can’t save you here.

Using the report gathered by EWG, we can see which brands had the highest and lowest levels of glyphosate. The brands and products I say to avoid have the highest overall levels while the brands I recommend had no detected levels. The amount of glyphosate is measured in ppb or parts per billion.

Brands to Avoid:

1. Quaker

2. Nature Valley

3. Market Pantry

4. Most generic store brands

Specific Products to Avoid:

1. Quaker Oatmeal Squares (2746- 2837 ppb)

2. Quaker Overnight Oats (1029- 1799 ppb)

3. Quaker Old Fashioned Oats (390-1300 ppb)

4. Quaker Simply Granola Oats (400- 862 ppb)

5. Giant Instant Oatmeal (760 ppb)

6. Back to Nature Classic Granola (170- 620 ppb)

7. Quaker Steel Cut Oats (290-530 ppb)

8. Market Pantry Instant Oatmeal (120 -520 ppb)

9. Nature Valley Granola Protein Oats n’ Honey (170- 220 ppb)

Specific Products to Buy:

1. Whole Foods 365 Organic Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats

After looking at the brands and products to avoid, it is pretty clear that Quaker is all around the worst in terms of glyphosate in their oats. They do not use organic oats and they are a brand that has a pretty bad reputation in terms of food quality and healthy options.

If the product you eat isn’t listed here, it may not have been the highest in glyphosate levels but it also wasn’t the lowest either. All of my recommended options are those that had no detected levels in the 2-4 samples taken.

If you are going to eat oats, please don’t eat them every day. And please choose one of the products deemed “safe” in this article.

To read more about the different ingredients hiding in your food and how to read food labels, check out the Food Labels portion of my blog.

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