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Watch out for Quaker Oatmeal
The ingredients of the variety packs of Quaker Instant Oatmeal don't have any ingredients that contain significant amounts of vitamin A. It just has things like oats, sugar, dried apples, cinnamon, and "natural flavors". The nutrition label doesn't have a section for vitamin A.
However, putting the food into Cronometer shows there is about 1000 IU of vitamin A in a single packet. This Livestrong article says that Quaker Oats fortifies its oatmeal https://www.livestrong.com/article/285537-nutrition-information-for-quaker-oats-instant-oatmeal/
However, couldn't find anything about vitamin A fortification on the Quaker website.
I'm really upset by this.
I’m not surprised you are upset @leap7 - that’s shocking. I’m in the U.K. where foods aren’t fortified with vA (yet) so I’m thinking it’s not the same here but I might be wrong.
I feel your pain as I found out a while back after using for several months that the night moisturiser I was using had added retinyl palmitate. I was horrified. It was a make called ‘Simple’ - ‘not perfumed, not coloured, just kind’ is the strap line!’ I was using it as my normal ‘healthy’ brand had added carrot oil. I thought I’d checked everything but I’d checked the day Simple moisturiser but not the night one. So frustrating when unexpected products have added vA.
Hi @leap7,
In 2006 the FDA changed the labeling requirements for the USA.
The list of nutrients that are required or permitted to be declared is being updated. Vitamin D and potassium are required on the label. Calcium and iron will continue to be required. Vitamins A and C are no longer required but can be included on a voluntary basis.
https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/changes-nutrition-facts-label
In addition to the vA palmitate added to many breakfast cereals in the USA, the added guar gum in Quaker Oatmeal is going to make it even worse IMO.
In one study the researchers used Guar gum alone to directly induce inflammation.
This reminds me that I never had a complete answer about the coconut cream we buy when I contacted the manufacturer.
I was thinking about the sad beginning of one of my loved ones. This was in the 1940's. The doc told her mother not to nurse for some stupid reason like "your breast milk is watery". I don't know what was fed, but perhaps an early formula? Perhaps all full of VA and who knows what? My loved one failed to thrive (which is a high VA symptom in babies). At one year she had barely grown at all.
"By the 1940s and 1950s, physicians and consumers regarded the use of formula as a well known, popular, and safe substitute for breastmilk."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684040/
This person is in the genetic line of people that all get "food attacks". (which to me seem to be VA purges) (and possibly other toxins)
We are guinea pigs, even our babies are guinea pigs! for these manufacturers.
Edited to add that another family member has very high blood sugar and eats oatmeal daily-- the easy to make, packet kind.
Oats do have significant amounts of carotenoids if you're sensitive, they have about 200-300 mcg of carotenoids per 100 grams of oats.
Hi all,
So I emailed Quaker and they responded that the variety packs are not fortified with anything - it is only the original flavor that is fortified with vitamins and minerals. So to my relief, it doesn't appear that they are secretly adding vitamin A, and the nutrition information I found online seems to be old information.
@ggenereux2014 Guar gum? SunFiber, which is a soluble fiber that some people are using while on the diet, is made out of partially hydrolyzed guar gum...
Hi @leap7, so just to clarify, are all their regular oats fortified, or just their instant, or is it just the instant in packets?
Also, it makes me wonder about the other brands that are sold right on the same shelf. They all seem to do the same things as one another.
@lil-chick It seems like the only oatmeal they fortify is the instant original flavor oatmeal. Here's the response I got:
"Thanks for reaching out to us at Quaker Oats. We appreciate your interest in our Apples and Cinnamon oatmeal.
This product is not fortified. The only oatmeal we fortify with vitamins and minerals in the Original flavor Instant Oatmeal."
Quote from ggenereux on September 15, 2020, 4:37 amHi @leap7,
In 2006 the FDA changed the labeling requirements for the USA.
The list of nutrients that are required or permitted to be declared is being updated. Vitamin D and potassium are required on the label. Calcium and iron will continue to be required. Vitamins A and C are no longer required but can be included on a voluntary basis.
https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/changes-nutrition-facts-label
In addition to the vA palmitate added to many breakfast cereals in the USA, the added guar gum in Quaker Oatmeal is going to make it even worse IMO.
In one study the researchers used Guar gum alone to directly induce inflammation.
I think I took too much fiber psyllium and acacia fiber(guar gum I’m assuming). Really does cause inflammation cause it was fermenting in my slow moving gut and for whatever other reasons.
i was thinking of starting acacia again slowly for probiotics to repopulate my micro biome but after your comment I’m reconsidering. So confusing.
We have always liked this product and it might? be a nice alternative to oatmeal (if you do wheat)
It has an interesting blend of vitamin additions, (calcium, some b's, D)
Nutrition Facts
| 10 servings per container | |
| Serving Size | 3 tbsp (33g) |
|---|---|
| Calories | Dry cereal 120 | Prepared with 1 1/4 cup fat free milk 220 |
|---|---|---|
| % Daily Value* | % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat | 0g0% | 0g0% |
| Saturated Fat | 0g0% | 0g0% |
| Trans Fat | 0g | 0g |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0g | 0g |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 0g | 0g |
| Cholesterol | 0mg0% | 5mg2% |
| Sodium | 100mg4% | 230mg10% |
| Total Carbohydrate | 25g9% | 40g15% |
| Dietary Fiber | 1g2% | 1g2% |
| Total Sugars | 0g | 15g |
| Includes Added Sugars | 0g0% | 0g0% |
| Protein | 3g | 14g |
| Vitamin A | 0mcg0% | 0mcg0% |
| Vitamin C | 0mg0% | 0mg0% |
| Calcium | 260mg20% | 630mg50% |
| Iron | 9.3mg50% | 9.4mg50% |
| Vitamin D | 4mcg20% | 7.7mcg40% |
| Thiamin | 0.2mg20% | 0.4mg30% |
| Riboflavin | 0.3mg20% | 0.8mg60% |
| Niacin | 3.2mg20% | 5.5mg35% |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.3mg20% | 0.5mg25% |
| Folate | 80mcg20% | 95mcg25% |
| Potassium | 30mg0% | 510mg10% |
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
Ingredients
Wheat Farina, Calcium Carbonate, Defatted Wheat Germ, Disodium Phosphate, Ferric Orthophosphate, Niacinamide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid.
Allergy Information
Contains Wheat
Product formulation and packaging may change. Please refer to the product label for the most accurate information.