Gluten Free Oats

[hobbyfrmr]

Grain Millers in Yorkton are looking for gluten free oats.

[sumdumguy]

What varieties are gluten-free? Sounds very interesting since gluten-free is becoming so popular.

[nibs1]

I think it means that the oats has been seeded on land that has not been seeded to wheat for a number of years so the oats has no volunteer wheat

[fjlip]

Oat meal is gluten free. In processing gluten can be introduced if wheat or barley were in the same facility.
Only Oats in Regina...http://onlyoats.squarespace.com/only-oat-oat-flour/

http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/glutenfreegrains/f/Is-Oatmeal-Gluten-Free.htm

[Klause]

Less than 1 kernel of wheat or barley per kg of oats.

We sold some last year...

[Wheatking]

I contacted a few people about growing gluten free oats. Those that I talked to say it is damn near impossible to meet the specs. I dont know I though it would be a great fit in my farm but either the person I talked to wanted to keep people from infringing or it is really difficult to achieve.

[Wheatking]

The person I talked to at only oats said you need to be a seed grower to sell to them. I see that they are producer owned, so perhaps you have to be an owner as well. It seems that onlyoats has a much more stringent requirements compared to some other buyers, in field inspections, pre-cleaned before delivery, etc... Has anyone sold to them before, thoughts/experiences.

[hobbyfrmr]

It was just a suggestion. You can split hairs on AV all day, or....you can make a call, get the accurate information, send a proper bin sample and go from there.

[Partners]

Some people are so sensitive to Gluten that they can't even have a spec. of it, or eat food that has even touched gluten...No fun..

[sll91]

Oats themselves are gluten free, not like wheat and barley. But yeah seed-growers are generally the only ones with the processes in place to ensure no contamination. Avena Foods (Only Oats) in Regina has a 0% tolerance for wheat/barley contamination because they sell their product into the gluten free market oversees. You can't yet label oats as gluten free in Canada, since in most cases they aren't.

[TraderJoe]

At this point, Grain Millers is not requiring you be a seed grower. Allowable in Gluten Free oats is 1 kernel of either wheat, barley, or rye in 1kg of oats (roughly an ice cream pail).

[Hopalong]

Grain Millers tolerance makes much more sense.
Zero tolerance just means they could not find in the sample or samples tested.