Are Oreos Gluten-Free?

15 hours ago, trents said:

My reactions to getting glutened happen within 2-3 hours of consuming it. Hours of intense gut cramps, intractable vomiting followed by a few hours of diarrhea. I have celiac disease, not NCGS.

Perspective.

On 5/12/2022 at 2:22 PM, Scott Adams said:

I would still be extremely surprised if you could purchase 100 packages of these and get any to test positive for gluten. We are talking about Nabisco, owned now by  Mondelēz International, which is one of the biggest food companies in the world. Of course it's possible, but what else did you eat that day or week? Given that you have delayed reactions, could it have been something else?

Just because they are a huge company, doesn't mean that their so-called "gluten-free" oats are safe. I'm sure you've heard of how General Mills handles their oats and that they had to be recalled for cross-contamination, once. They're not even allowed to label them as gluten-free in Canada.

General Mills did a voluntary recall in 2015 on a batch of their cereals shortly after they went gluten-free, and this did not happen again:

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"Our Lodi production facility lost rail service for a time and our gluten-free oat flour was being off-loaded from rail cars to trucks for delivery to our facility on the dates in question. In an isolated incident involving purely human error, wheat flour was inadvertently introduced into our gluten-free oat flour system at Lodi. That error resulted in an undeclared allergen – wheat – being present in products labeled as gluten free at levels above the FDA gluten-free standard."

There are political reasons why Canada has created a dual regulation on gluten-free oats, and it has little to do with safety, and a lot to do with protecting their oat farmers:

46 minutes ago, Scott Adams said:

General Mills did a voluntary recall in 2015 on a batch of their cereals shortly after they went gluten-free, and this did not happen again:

 

There are political reasons why Canada has created a dual regulation on gluten-free oats, and it has little to do with safety, and a lot to do with protecting their oat farmers:

 

I appreciate the context. Admittedly, I didn't do a lot of research related to this. I was mostly going by what I read from Gluten Free Watchdog, which generally made me very weary of non-purity protocol oats. Until recently, I didn't eat any oats at all, not even purity protocol ones, despite being gluten-free my whole life, just because the subject seems very complicated.

On 1/21/2023 at 10:46 AM, lollo said:

Just because they are a huge company, doesn't mean that their so-called "gluten-free" oats are safe. I'm sure you've heard of how General Mills handles their oats and that they had to be recalled for cross-contamination, once. They're not even allowed to label them as gluten-free in Canada.

A few years ago, my sister who has celiac like me got some Cheerios that had been handled wrong. She had an attack as a result. She complained to the company so I hope they're being more careful now. I'm pleased that Cheerios is making more gluten-free cereals than ever. My sister told me the CEO has a daughter with celiac so he has a vested interest in making gluten-free Cheerios safe. I enjoy the gluten-free Oreos as well and have never had a problem eating them.