June 2024 Laboratory Test Results for One Degree Organic Gluten Free Sprouted Rolled Oats
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Published: June 30, 2024
Updated: August 13, 2024
MORE good news, Everyone!
- One Degree Organic Gluten Free Sprouted Rolled Oats is now officially the SECOND food product we have tested and reported on that resulted in “Non-Detect” for the four metals of concern we are looking at during this testing.
- Here is our affiliate link for the exact product we tested: https://amzn.to/3VNsfnv
- What these test results mean is that this product tested “effectively negative” for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic.
- We say “effectively negative” because, as with all laboratory testing, there is a “low threshold of detection” the testing is capable of — and within the context of this low threshold of detection for the testing we completed, this product did not test positive for these four toxic heavy metals.
- While the product could possibly still have heavy metals at trace (very low) levels BELOW our laboratory’s low threshold of detection, it is very important to note that NOT ONLY did this product test non-detect for heavy metals (given our lab’s low threshold of detection), but our lab’s low threshold of detection for the testing and reporting done on this product ALSO falls well below the Action Levels for toxic heavy metals recommended by the scientific and medical community in the proposed Baby Food Safety Act of 2021.
- The MOST IMPORTANT piece of information to share here (the MOST IMPORTANT outcome of testing this product) is that it serves as yet another piece of SOLID EVIDENCE (clearly-demonstrated scientific evidence) that the proposed Action Levels (included in the Baby Food Safety Act of 2021) are ACHIEVABLE. This is useful information in challenging all the food companies (Lesser Evil, Serenity Kids, Cerebelly, Selina Naturally, and others) that are defending the unsafe levels of heavy metals we have found in their “healthy” or “Purity Award Winning,” and otherwise touted as “safer,” products.
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Links to Laboratory Test Reports for Other Cereal/ Breakfast Food Products we Have Tested
- Cascadian Farm Organics Purely O’s
- LoVEBiRD Grain Free Cereal
- Cerebelly Blueberry Smart Bars (cereal bars)
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Lab report for the organic rolled oats product pictured:
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That’s great, I just started using these! I wonder how Bobs Red Mill organic gluten free oats, which I’ve used for years, would test?
Hi Penni!
Please check out this link if you would like to nominate a food that has not yet been tested:
https://tamararubin.com/2024/05/how-to-test-food-yourself-via-a-lab-submission-for-lead-cadmium-arsenic-and-mercury/
Also – if you want to stay on top of what has been tested and what is pending, this link has that information as well:
https://tamararubin.com/2024/06/food-testing-fundraising-campaigns-update-june-21-2024-batch-3-of-lead-safe-mama-llc-food-testing/
Thank you for commenting!
Yes please, anything Nature’s Path’s. If possible Nature’s Path Berry Blast Cheetah Chomps Organic Cereal. Thank you so much!
Would it be safe to assume their sprouted quick oats are safe as well or no?
It seems like a reasonable conclusion – but I think it’s important to test each of these products separately.
T
Wondering too! I love these for cooked cereal but they are not good for recipes like oatmeal muffins.
So this oats is ok to use ?
Yes – this tested clean!
I’m so relieved! We eat their oats every morning plus also grind it into oat flour.
Yes! We do also and so happy to see these test results too!
Love this news! I eat these three times a week. Thanks!
I am so happy to see this! Thank you!!! I use their sprouted quick oats and their granola too…
Woohoo! So relieved to have confirmation that there are companies producing clean food! My fav is their steel cut oats. Hope to see One Degree continue to expand their product lines!
YES!!! This also happens to be one of the brans which is glyphosate reside free so I’ve been buying this brand for a couple of years however I have read some recent reviews that says some packages have gone rancid so just smell before consuming, wonder if it can be refrigerated?
I wonder how One Degree boxed cereals would test? We buy their “Rice Krispies” (Sprouted Brown Rice Crisps)
Would it be safe to assume their flavored oatmeal are clean too? Thanks for all you do! ( :
No – they need to be tested independently.
Thank you for this and all of your hard work! It would be sooo helpful if you included nickel content as part of your readings as well.
The lab does not test for nickel.
T
Tamara, what coffee grinder to you recommend to be able to grind these oats into a flour? I have gluten sensitivity and can’t eat the jovial einkorn flour (even though it says it has a low gluten index)
I just use my blender to make oat flour.
Thanks for the great idea!
I’m wondering about ochratoxin levels. Lots of grains get a bit moldy and develop vary8ng levels of this fungus that is very unhealthy.
I’m wondering if we can assume One Degree sprouted steel cut oats is safe as well?
I don’t think we can – because they are processed differently. We have some other One Degree fundraisers up right now:
1.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lead-safe-mama-lab-testing-one-degree-organic-quick-oats?qid=5a0acc1be6c2681751eebb2f231f5910
2.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lead-safe-mama-lab-tests-one-degree-organic-khorasan-flour?qid=6310ed5f5aa210d9a80a154f0e6845a1
Was there an update to this one that was supposed to be published after another version of this brand came back not clean. We decided to stop consuming until the updated results.
Will be published shortly.