The opportunities and increased demand for gluten-free oats

The media is always trying to find - or at least tell us about - the next super food. On this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Michael Hennessy is joined by Mariea O’Toole, Grain quality operations manager at Glanbia to find out how they have developed new markets for oats over the past 12 years.

Oats have a number of advantages over other cereals as they are nutritious, help people to live longer due to beta glucans, and are gluten free.

On this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Michael Hennessy is joined by Mariea O’Toole, Grain quality operations manager at Glanbia to find out how they have developed new markets for oats over the past 12 years and are going from strength to strength.

Mariea explained to Michael that the business has developed many new products and markets especially in the past 3-4 years  The most recent product is hydrolysed and non hydrolysed flour which can be used in plant based yoghurts, drinks and bakery products. 

Mariea said the fact that oats are gluten free is a big selling point and both the company supply chain and farmers growing the oats are monitored very carefully.  Field inspections, tightly controlled harvesting, in-house sampling, etc. all give consumers confidence in the Glanbia closed loop system.

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