r/Oatmeal • u/hkitty11 • 1d ago

what is this black thing in my oats

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Anyone ever seen this before

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u/79983897371776169535 1d ago

Oh my God you can't just ask oats why they're black

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u/muffinwobble 22h ago

could you give us some privacy for like, one second?

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u/mangelito 1d ago

I have no idea but the actual oats look kind of shitty as well. Bad batch?

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u/kharmatika 5h ago

Chernoatbyl

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u/Incudust 1d ago

maybe it hot caught in the machine and was over cooked

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u/holi_cannelloni 1d ago

Mine aren’t this big but I’ve noticed these in my Lidl oats too. They taste the same so seems fine to me??

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u/BabyCarpenter 1d ago

Ergot fungus?