Here’s our Chart Comparing the Laboratory Test Results for 5 Different Oatmeal Products
August 19, 2025
Hello! We just shared this chart on social media. Please scroll down to check it out. Thanks for reading!
–
As noted on our website (in multiple places, in case you missed it), we are committed to re-testing items on our “Lab-Tested Safer Choices List” annually or more frequently (as funds permit).
–
Once our app launches, we expect to be re-testing safer choices more frequently, as the app’s structure should generate the funds to make that possible.
–
If you would like to be among the first to see our app when it launches (and if you would like to be considered as a beta tester for the app), please join us on Patreon for notifications about those opportunities. Here’s our Patreon Link: patreon.com/LeadSafeMama
–
Here’s the link to our current Lab-Tested Safer Choices List:
https://tamararubin.com/2025/06/81/
–
If an item on the safer choices list tests positive for toxicants at-or-above the (most health protective) action levels proposed in 2021 when that item is re-tested, we will remove it from our list (as our Lab-Tested Safer Choices list only includes items that fall below those thresholds).
–
The safer choices list (again, linked here, and also in our instagram bio) currently includes 84 products that we have tested and reported on to date: https://tamararubin.com/2025/06/81/
–
We removed One Degree Rolled Oats (the yellow bag) from our safer choices list after re-testing, as it no longer meets those very strict standards.
–
That One Degree Rolled Oats product is still the safest oat product choice we have found to date (as you can see from the chart below). We have also updated the original article to include this new information. You can read the original piece here: https://tamararubin.com/2024/06/one-degree-rolled-oats/
–
My family will continue using this product as our oats choice until we can identify something cleaner, however — given my husband has a pre-cancerous condition and I also have a history of cancer — we will be eating less of it than we have previously, and I will be encouraging my husband not to consume it at all, if possible.
–
Learn more at Lead Safe Mama dot com. To see the full, original lab reports for all products we have tested, click the link below — which can also be found in our Instagram bio — then click the image of the product you are curious about. There are over 450 lab reports pinned on our lab report landing page and we update this page every week (usually several times a week as we publish new reports). In the meantime, this is a great page to bookmark:
https://tamararubin.com/lab-reports/
–
Thank you.
–
Neither our re-testing for the One Degree Rolled Oats nor separate testing of the One Degree Steel Cut Oats (both conducted in May) was funded or sponsored. If you appreciate this information, please consider making a contribution in support of our work. You can join us on Patreon with a small monthly gift, or you can contribute something via our General Fund GoFundMe campaign.
We are not a nonprofit organization, so contributions are not tax-deductible — just very much appreciated by the entire community. Thank you!
–
Patreon: patreon.com/LeadSafeMama
–
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/leadsafemamas-lead-poisoning-prevention-advocacy
Never Miss an Important Article Again!
Join our Email List
I’m hopeful One Degree Oats will see these results and make appropriate changes so it can make it back to the Safer Choices list.
Me too!
Arrrggh. Explains why I have been muscle testing negatively for my One Degree steel cut oats! Thank you for testing across all product lines. No room for assumptions to be made regarding safety within a branded product line!
Hi Friend!
Thank you for commenting! I was wondering how you are doing. Let me know if you would like to catch up in a call soon. I expect we will be launching the app by the end of this year.
T
I’m so disappointed by the latest test results for One Degree Oats! Hopefully, the farmers will address these issues.
What about a non-oatmeal for you and your husband? Have you tried Mahjoub Couscous from Tunisia? I randomly found it as I searched for flour — I’d had good luck in Spain, and learned the wheat came from Tunisia. Is it expensive to sponsor a test when you next rent the XRF analyzer? This season, I grew a few batches of potatoes. So tired of contaminated chow in the market.
I’ve tried to switch away from rice due to the prevalence of rice contamination from pesticides, etc. Oatmeal is a juicy grain that really gets eaten by pests, so I don’t see how it’s not sprayed to death — I tried to grow some in my field, and the stink bugs just sucked it down.
Hi Han,
Here is our budget for laboratory testing:
https://tamararubin.com/budget/
Tamara
Regarding foods that test badly, once the soil is contaminated, there is not much to be done. No one is going to dig out acres of fields. And what would they replace it with? It’s really impossible to get good gardening soil because there is so much contaminated land and sewage sludge for sale cheap.
Does your XRF test for PFAS? No, right? I was looking at the Maine PFAS problems in crops and seafood due to water run off.
This testing is NOT done with XRF technology. These are lab reports. This is lab testing – sending products off for testing to independent, third-party labs.
XRF technology does not test in parts per billion (ppb), but parts per million (ppm) – and only tests for metals.
T