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Rolled oats: allergens and what’s inside

Of 1,080 packs of rolled oats whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list gluten and 4% list tree nuts. Another 17% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list oat and oat flakes.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 99% of these packs

Which allergens are in rolled oats?

Of 1,080 packs of rolled oats whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list gluten, 4% list tree nuts, 3% list milk and 3% list soy. Another 17% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 16% for soy and 14% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you99% list gluten.
Tree nut allergyHeads up4% list tree nuts; 17% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Milk allergyHeads up3% list milk; 9% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up3% list soy; 16% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Peanut allergyHeads up1% list peanuts; 7% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Sesame allergyHeads up1% list sesame; 14% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

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What are rolled oats usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of rolled oats list, with the share of packs that list each: oat (98%), oat flakes (69%) and whole grain oat flakes (17%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 610 · Spain 340 · Germany 336 · United States 307.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for rolled oats.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food are rolled oats?

In the Open Food Facts categories, rolled oats are one of the cereal flakes.

What else are rolled oats called?

In EnglishOat flakesOatmealOatmeal flakes
French
Flocons d’avoine, Flocons d'avoine
German
Haferflocken
Spanish
Copos de avena
Italian
Fiocchi d'avena
Dutch
Havermoutvlokken, Havermouten
Portuguese
Flocos de aveia
Polish
Płatki owsiane

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Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

  1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: Rolled oats

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