Quaker Oats

We have purchased 2 different boxes of instant maple syrup oats and they have a horrible smell of bleach when they are cooking or hot water is poured over them. 3 other family members refused to eat them when placed cooked in front of them because the smell was so bad. I am not sure why they would change the formula of oats and think this is an acceptable additive, other than trying to cut costs, ultimately leading to inferior product.

Lately the first time I ate it tasted strange then upon giving it another chance it tasted like straight up roach spray. All I added was sugar and boiling water. I am eating this oatmeal since I was a child and it has never tasted this way to me ever ever ever. God knows what they're doing now. I know why they sell Redd's Oats.

I was making my mushroom soup and I decided to add 2 hand full of Quaker instant oat to it to make it rich. What I saw shocked me. I saw lots of bugs came on surface of my soup. I went back to the pocket and I empty it into a pot and I saw lots more! It was disgusting. I had to throw away my entire big pot of soup. I researched internet and I saw many people have had the same issue with this brand. I wanted to post couple of pictures but there is no option here.

People, don't eat this! It has pieces of plastic in it, not only once, I found it several times. I am on special diet for eating more fiber, and actually this is not helping me, it is poisoning me. Imagine those pieces of plastic what can do to your guts. People are buying this type of food with intention to eat more healthy food, but this is totally the opposite. We better organize ourself and try to fight this irresponsible company. They need to get out from the supermarkets asap before someone get hurts. Perhaps many people are already victims but they have no idea where the problem is coming from. I don't want to mention that I was giving this oatmeal to my children. Total disaster.

Every morning I eats my oats for breakfast. I love them. But this morning I nearly broke my teeth on a small pebble. When going through my meal I found a couple of more. I was lucky not to break my teeth. I made some picture but unfortunately can not add them.

Yeah... I don’t think I can ever eat oatmeal again after seeing this??? First I found a dried and shredded worm skin so then I started looking... and sure enough after stirring it up... I found the worm. Soooo grosss.

Just called Quaker and they wanted to send me coupons as well to compensate. No thanks. I’m done with Quaker... anything. Tried packets after finding bug in the tub container. Both times had more bugs!

My son and I were eating peaches and cream instant oatmeal and there was a bunched up RUBBERBAND in my oatmeal!!! I have ate this oatmeal for years and I will NOT be eating it again. I am so grossed out! I am so glad my ONE year old son didn’t have that bite!!!

Today I read an article from research scientists who found our oat based cereals contain 8% more glyphosate than is recommended for our health. I was disappointed, because my favorite cereals are "Honey Bunches of Oats" and Life cereal (contains oat flour). It is time the cereal industry put their foot down on Monsanto, and Bayer, and the industrial producers of cereal who lazily apply Round-Up on our cereal crops every year. It is not a necessary step in production. It is a cancer agent, and it needs to be withdrawn as part of producing our food. People are becoming more and more conscious of what they eat. Wake up! I will now boycott all cereals until the industry complies with this health mandate.

I love the taste of the LIFE cinnamon cereal, but this time around it was different. I started eating the cereal, as it looked fine but realized the taste was off this time, and after about 3 scoops, I noticed this white slime on a few pieces. Started digging around in my bowl to find more. It's not from my milk, as the milk was brand new, not even close to expiring, and I definitely would've noticed curd clumps drop out of the jug if that was the case, and it was the first bowl of cereal out of a new bag which doesn't expire for the next 6 months. I came across a lot of negative reviews for Quaker products while trying to see if someone had the same issue. I'm really disappointed, ruined my breakfast...

Below is the original email I sent to you about the problem I had with the Quaker Fruit and Cream 20 pack/value pack which I paid $11.99 each for 3 boxes I buy every time I get my SSI benefits check and do my monthly shopping. Today I received some coupons for Quaker products, but NOTHING FOR THE OATMEAL. You people have a lot of nerve... And shame on you for taking an old man for granted by trying to pull the wool over my eyes. When I saw the coupons I got so angry I tore them up in little pieces and cursed you the whole time. You DARED TO SEND ME COUPONS FOR THINGS I NEVER USED AND WILL NEVER USE.

Just recently bought a small tub of Quaker Regular Oatmeal from my job at Big Lots and saved it for in the morning. Was in the middle of my first bite when I noticed my bowl was full of dead bugs! Then I looked at the tub and saw bugs bubbling from the bottom where they were buried underneath. I nearly choked up my own guts into the trash. There were so many that I had to scramble to kill them and wounded up wrapping the tub in two bags.

While on vacation, the news reported that Quaker Oats, Cheerios, and several other products contain WEED KILLER. Although they report that the EPA/Government allows 160 parts per billion as an ACCEPTABLE "safe" amount, I refuse to eat anything with ANY AMOUNT of weed killer in it. This is 100% UNACCEPTABLE to us. I eat Quaker Oats 3 to 4 times a week! As soon as we returned home, I pulled the 1/2 box of Quaker Oats out of our pantry and threw it in the garbage where it belongs. I suppose I could have sprinkled it on our flower bed to kill weeds, but we threw it out. I will no longer be purchasing any of your products and we will look for another brand that does not poison their consumers. If we can't find another non-toxic oatmeal, we will just not eat it anymore. Thanks, but you can keep your toxic products!!!

This was the first box of Real Medley cereal that I had tried and was disappointed. Quaker Oats, for a long time, had been known with putting out healthy breakfast foods that were both nutritious and tasteful. Sadly, I cannot apply those terms to this cereal. Though this cereal uses healthful grains and other items such as nuts and dried fruits, this cereal is also very sweet and not favorable to someone, such as I, who is watching their intake of sugar. It seems that Quaker Oats, who once stood out among the crowd of breakfast foods, has now fallen in line with other breakfast cereals in putting out heavily processed and sweetened foods. Also some people suspect that this cereal has GMOs.

Cooked the last amount of Quaker oats that I transferred to a sealed container and stored inside the fridge, I already ate the first servings and didn't noticed the tiny white spot (egg-like thing) mixed in my oatmeal not until I tried to get my second serving! So disgusting! What will you do abt this, Quaker Oats what if there's gonna be parasites in my stomach because of this? You should close.down your company! YOU ARE A THREAT TO CONSUMERS' HEALTH AND OUR LIVES!!!

I was at work and I open my brand new package of oatmeal. Immediately moths start flying out of the package. I had to quickly cover it and start killing them. Frantically yelling and slamming stuff my co-workers came into the kitchen and notice the swarm of moths. I was so embarrassed.

I was halfway through my second box of maple brown sugar instant oatmeal when the next and last bag I opened up into a bowl had a little black surprise pop out of it along with the oats. Thinking nothing of it and not giving a second look as I assumed it was an overcooked or just discolored oat, I proceeded to pour the boiling water in. After a minute of letting it settle I noticed that the "black oat" had antennas and legs sticking out of it. Disgusted, I immediately put garbage where garbage is supposed to be (in the bin) after showing my wife. I regret not taking a photo of it like she suggested afterwards. I was just too disturbed to do anything else in the moment. Thank you Quaker, for ruining my oatmeal experience. It was a good run while it lasted.

We usually love our Life cereal but today my kids opened up a new box of Life Original. Had a bowl, in search of some more a large mass that was brown, hard looked like things stuck to it fell out. We are scared and want answers. I mean my kids just ate this. I tried calling customer service. It isn’t open on weekends. Maybe poison control? What the heck is this thing???

Maple Brown Sugar instant packets infested with little bugs. I will never eat oatmeal again. Quaker owes me the milk I wasted, the price of the oatmeal, emotional distress 'cause now I see black/brown specks on my food and immediately lose my appetite.

What happened to Quaker Oats? They used to be good. After not having prepared their oatmeal in a long time I decided to buy a container. I cooked it as recommended and it was awful. Tough oats and an odd taste. Not good. I threw it out. Then I tried it again a week later. Same tough oats with an unappetizing taste. I then googled Quaker Oats and was shocked to read the number of people complaining about finding bugs in the oats. This is totally unacceptable. What in God's name is going on here? These complaints have been going on since 2005 and up to 2016. Where is the FDA??? Why aren't they inspected these plants and the product? Now Quaker Oats is recalling its granola bars for possible listeria contamination. The Quaker Oats Company should be shut down for good!!

I bought some Quaker Oats and they tasted nasty. After searching on Google I found that EcoWatch tested Quaker Oats imported into Taiwan and found it exceeded the supposedly safe limit of glyphosate Monsanto poison. Bugs are natural in grains but not the nasty taste. People used to have to use a sifter to sift weevils out of the flour before using the flour. The bugs are evidently immune to the poison which shouldn't be used on oats. You shake the oats up and down to shake the bugs out. Aren't any of you country farm people? Anyway it's probably not safe to eat because of the glyphosate Monsanto poison.

I purchased a bulk box of Quaker instant oatmeal at Sam's Club in Avondale, Arizona in October of 2017. I stored one package in my convenient 2 gallon container. Today, December 6th, 2017 I went to fill up my “work” container with the oats in my 2 gallon container. When I opened the container I immediately noticed tiny squirming bugs all over the “scooper” I use. I proceeded to Google away. I threw out the contents of the container into a plastic bag and straight into the outside trash. I then cleaned my cabinets checking each oat and grain container. I then placed bay leaves in every container. Ultimately, I decided to throw out the unopened second bag of oats that came in the same box. I'm a bargain shopper and I am very discouraged by my experience. I will still eat Quaker Oats but I will be much more cautious now. The effortless wholesome view of this product will probably never return.

I have always enjoyed Quaker Oats Raisin, Date and Walnut Instant Oatmeal. So I bought several boxes. I opened a box and made one of the packet. To my surprise it had a bad taste. It taste salty and bitter instead of sweet. I checked the expiration date and it was fine. Then I opened another box and the packet in the box had the same bad taste. I wanted to know if there was a recall because somehow the company accidentally put the wrong ingredient in the this particular oatmeal flavor. Only God know what I digested. I only had one spoon but it was so nasty. I am not a person who is easily thrown off by awful taste. However, this was really bad. I am not going to buy this brand of oatmeal again after my experience and the nasty things I read about concerning the hygiene of the Quaker brand. I am very disappointed.

Many months ago my boyfriend bought the bulk size Quaker Oatmeal box at Costco and we keep it on top of the refrigerator. A few days ago I decided to make Oatmeal cookies and a maggot fell onto the kitchen counter. When I poured the oats into a bowl I did not see any maggots at that time so I made the cookies. I regret that. A few days later I wanted to make some hot oatmeal and I saw a maggot hanging on the side of the jar. I told my boyfriend about it and he proceeded to empty out the bags and found dozens of maggots and clumpy weblike stuff in the oatmeal. I’m totally sick by this, literally. We just bought a new box which I advised him to return asap. Who knows how long this has been stored on the shelf and now makes me wonder what they are putting in the oats.

I have always loved Quaker Oats Instant Maple and Brown Sugar Cereal, but my recent experience has put a doubt about the hygiene conditions the Quaker products may be processed in. I had got this pack from a Ralph's in Southern California. After pouring milk in the instant cereal mix, the bugs began to surface, I don't think I would open the remaining packs in this box, highly disappointed! I immediately went on to the internet looking for similar experiences and wow!

I am traumatized with my experience with Quaker Instant Oatmeal. I purchased the banana nut protein instant oatmeal and was disgusted by what I saw when I microwaved a packet at work. There were 2 types of bugs in the oatmeal. Not just 1 or 2; the oatmeal was swamped with these little worms. I am very disappointed because I used to eat the oatmeal at work every day for breakfast. Not only can I never eat Quaker oatmeal, but I can never eat oatmeal at all ever again. I think about those worms in my food all the time. I check everything before I eat now.

I was not able to open the 42 ounce container. The instructions did not make sense. It said something about pulling on the plastic on the outside and that did not work. I ended up taking a knife and cutting through the top multiple times. After I got the top off I noticed chunks of plastic and paper in the oats so gave thought to throwing it away. Instead I pulled the few pieces of plastic and paper in the oatmeal out that I saw and hope neither plastic or paper is too dangerous. One chunk of plastic was about 1 inch long that I pulled out. The container top is far too dangerous.

I love oatmeal but will never eat it again. Soon as I opened the container, not the bags, worms, and flying bugs were everywhere. After reading other people’s experiences with Quaker oatmeal. I am at a lack of understanding why Quaker still has products on the market. Why have they not been shut down?

I opened an individual package of Instant Maple Brown Sugar Quaker oatmeal, warmed water in a coffee mug in the microwave, and added the mix to the mug. I mixed it real good and waited. I was at work when I began to eat it. I noticed something that looked like a maggots skin floating, and I took it out. It really scared me, so I began to look more. And then I found a maggot in my oatmeal. I couldn't believe it. I was in shock.

I opened a brand new box of Quaker Instant Oatmeal. When I pulled out one of the packets and placed it on the table, I saw a worm - alive and crawling on the outside of the packet. It looked like a mealworm to me. Of course after seeing this, I did not want to eat any of the packets of oatmeal. I removed the remaining packets of oatmeal because I saw something at the bottom of the box. Still not sure what it was, but I took a picture of it. Looked to me like dried up bugs. Quaker needs to explain, why their products are being sold in this condition. This is not good/healthy.