re: General discussion - American food supply relating to allergies (gluten, nuts, soy, etc).

If you want to split hairs and talk about pre- and post-harvest application times by all means go for it. There is glyophospate in the trash bread flour.

This is made in the US.

Ingredients: Whole Grain Rolled
Oats, Sugar, Creaming Agent (Maltodextrin, Sunflower And Palm Oils, Whey, Sodium Caseinate), Flavored And Colored Fruit Pieces (Dehydrated Apples Treated With Sodium Sulfite], Artificial Strawberry Flavor, Citric Acid, Red 40), Salt, Guar Gum, Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Niacinamide, Vitamin A Palmitate, Reduced Iron, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Thiamin Mononitrate, Folic Acid.

This is made in the UK:

Ingredients: Quaker Wholegrain
Rolled Oats, Sugar, Freeze Dried Raspberry Pieces, Freeze Dried Strawberry Pieces, Natural Flavouring.

Same products.

well I know who you are

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tons of studies show you dont need carbs if that is your preferred way of eating.

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I hate blanket statements like this because they are almost never accurate.

Endurance athletes almost always have to eat a lot of carbs. I am a cyclist and I take in 77 grams of carbs per hour DURING exercise and about 50 more within the first hour post ride. It is far more important that I get the carbs in shortly after the ride than protein which works better a couple of hours later. I could not begin to perform at my (increasingly meager) peak on a carnivore diet as my glycogen stores would be down almost constantly.

That being said I have quite giving nutrition advice to the kids I coach outside of teaching them to eat early and often while riding. If the parents can spend $10,000+ on a bicycle they can get a consultation with a sports nutritionist so little Johnny eats something besides lean meat, white/beige carbs, and veggies like I have for 40+ years.

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Roundup is used to harvest our grains to dry them out faster.

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That's not what roundup is used for at all....

ETA: to be clear stuff like Paraquat is at times used to dry out crops but it's pretty rare in the south. Round up is not