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Are Oats Considered Kitniyot?

by | Mar 27, 2026 | Pesach Products | 4 comments

For Ashkenazim who avoid kitniyot, if oats are not from the five grains and there is no clear tradition that oats were ever included in the original minhag of kitniyot, should oats really be treated as kitniyot at all?

4 Comments

  1. Kenneth Canfield
    Kenneth Canfield on March 29, 2026 at 3:18 pm

    The 2026 list has, e.g., Cheerios marked for Sephardim only. So these are okay for all? Thanks!

    • Aaron Abadi
      Aaron Abadi on March 30, 2026 at 12:16 pm

      Yes. Good point. Next year we will incorporate this into the list.

      • Kenneth Canfield
        Kenneth Canfield on March 31, 2026 at 7:40 am

        Thanks!

  2. Aaron Abadi
    Aaron Abadi on March 27, 2026 at 3:15 pm

    No. Oats are not Kitniyot. They should be treated like corn or quinoa. The Minhag of Kitniyot is not relevant to the way we buy food today, and would not have been established today. There is no Mesorah that says that oats is kitniyot and we should not be adding to a Minhag that isn’t really necessary today.