Do Oatly’s products contain gluten?
Because we place special demands on the cleanliness of our raw oats, we are able to guarantee that Oatly products contain less than 100 ppm (mg/kg product) gluten from wheat, rye and barley. This is comparable to products that may be labelled "Very low gluten" and which are allowed to contain max 100 ppm gluten. We guarantee the same limits for all of the products in our range. Products that are labelled "gluten-free" may not contain more than 20 ppm gluten, and the gluten content in Oatly's products is not this low.
US: Our products in the US are made from certified gluten-free oats and are labelled gluten-free.
US: Our products in the US are made from certified gluten-free oats and are labelled gluten-free.
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We would love for Oatly to be gluten free. Our hope is that oats will become a more major crop which would make the price of the raw material lower, thus enabling us to include gluten-free products in our range.
All the best,
Many thanks,
Pauline
Thank you for your message. Of course, let me explain further for you.
Our U.S range is made with Canadian gluten free oats ('no gluten' printed on the packages) whereas our products available on other markets are made with 'low gluten' oats, but not gluten free. While oat in itself is completely free from gluten proteins, it may be contaminated during harvesting, transport etc. We can guarantee that our products contain a maximum of 100 parts per million (mg/kg product) gluten, which is the limit for products to be recognized as very low gluten products.
For a product to be labelled "gluten-free", the gluten level must be less than 20 ppm of gluten.
In order to create gluten-free products, the raw material that is required - absolutely gluten free oats - is still much more expensive than the oats we use today. As of now, there is not enough supply of gluten free oats and we are also not able to handle such in our facilities as it takes a very special and controlled environment. We have therefore concluded that we won't be making the switch to these pure oats as this would greatly affect the price of our products, which are already more expensive than their dairy counterparts.
I hope this helps!
All the best,
Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly and explaining the situation. So just to clarify the only difference between the Canadian and Swedish oats is that the Canadian oats have been produced in an an environment that guarantees protection from contamination from other sources whereas that guarantee can't absolutely be given for the Swedish supply? But the oats themselves aren't materially any different? Thanks again! Brilliant website by the way - very comprehensive!
Exactly - you got it! If you have any other questions do not hesitate to get in contact!
All the best,
Duly noted!
All the best
Just to add to the gluten-free discussion, oats are mostly contaminated with gluten due to cross contamination from neighbouring fields (seeds carried by wind or animals), and also regular oats are milled in mills in which other gluten containing grains are milled.
Thus, oats can contain up to 15% other grains.
The process of growing gluten-free oats thus means planting them far away (not sure how far) from gluten containing fields and milled at special gluten-free mills.
This explains the price difference. I’m not sure why they are able to do it Soo much cheaper in the US/Canada though, it must be a question of quantity. Obviously, the more you produce, the cheaper the price and GF brands like Bobs red mill in US have become huge and thus prices are lower...
Buy more GF oats in Europe and prices will drop 😀
We are as excited as you are to include gluten-free products in our range. Hopefully this will become a realistic option for us soon!
All the best
I have just been alerted to the fact that your delicious milk isn't gluten free !
So disappointed as I love it, my tea tastes so good but I'll have to stop buying it.
Really hope you can make it gluten free in the future.
Penny
Love,
We hear you and the list is definitely growing! Thanks for getting in touch.
All the best
please add me to the list :-)
Thanks for adding to the discussion. Gluten-free is firmly on the wishlist!
All the best
Thank you for sending us your requests, and we really appreciate all the love!
We've taken note of your requests for gluten-free products, and we hope that this will be a possibility in the future!
All the best,
Looking at this post it goes back to 2018, surely with 3 years of customers requesting gluten free products you can start to action this more widely in the UK now?
Unfortunately none of our products are completely gluten free as we don't use 'pure' oats, but our production is set up in such a way that we can guarantee they contain less than 100 ppm of gluten - which deems the product to be very low in gluten. The same applies to our ice creams.
Unfortunately it currently isn't feasible for us to source gluten-free oats in Europe as the cost of the raw material is significantly higher than the cost of conventional oats, due to the separate infrastructure that is needed to handle them in order to keep them gluten-free.
We hope that as more of the oats grown in Europe are used for human consumption instead of animal fodder, the demand for gluten-free oats will increase and, as a result, the price will drop as more infrastructure is invested in.
We're sorry that this is taking quite some time, and we hope to see these changes in the future.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
All the best,
As others have stated, you could introduce a gluten free option along side your existing range and charge more.. or import from the USA and charge more, If nothing else it's work trying to see if the audience exists for it.
It seems odd to me to have such a demand for a product and people literally coming to you to ask for it, but no action in three years - even if the supply here in Europe isn't what you'd like it to be, I don't believe it's as impossible as the replies make out and more simply that as a business you don't want to, for example I can buy 5kg of gluten free oats for £15.78 and I believe that's a price worth paying to have them, so the amount you'd buy should surely be a more reasonable price than that and broken down to the price of one carton I'm sure people would pay it...
Anyway, another name to add to the list... maybe in another 3 years time it might be a reality.
As Sophie mentioned, we are sorry that it is taking a long time for us to produce a gluten free product in Europe. We are working hard to make it happen!
Thanks for your input and letting us know your thoughts!
All the best
We're sorry to hear that you're unable to enjoy our products. Unfortunately we don't currently have a date set, however we are aware that there is a large demand for a gluten-free version so it's definitely something we're looking to consider!
All the best,
Thanks,
We're sorry to hear that your son isn't able to enjoy our products, Magdalena. It saddens us to hear that people are missing out.
We have heard from a lot of our consumers that they would really like a gluten-free version, so we understand how important this is and are working hard to make it happen.
All the best,
Please add my name to the growing list of Coeliac disease sufferers who would love for your products to be GF, and who won't be buying them again until they are; your chocolate milk is heavenly, and I was very excited about trying the custard!
Thank you for letting us know! We've added you to our list of requests for our products to become gluten-free.
Vic, we're sorry to hear that you will no longer be able to enjoy our products, and we hope we're able to change this in the future!
All the best,