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Chlormequat: What is the chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats?

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Todd

Chlormequat: What is the chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats?
March 03, 2024 11:24AM

Registered: 11 years ago
Posts: 322

Looks like Chlormequat Chloride is in all the grains.
Chlormequat side effects
Exposure to Chlormequat Chloride can cause nausea and vomiting. Higher levels can cause slow or irregular heartbeat, tremors, seizures, and coma.
Use of chlormequat on crops like wheat, oats and barley decreases stem height of the plants.
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susan.d

Re: Chlormequat: What is the chemical found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats?
March 31, 2024 07:00PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 2,515

Not gluten free. I changed over in 2009 because gluten gave me indigestion which triggered afib