Augason Farms Quick Rolled Oats 4-Gallon Pail, Emergency Food Supply, Everyday Meals, 113 Servings

Great quality oats. Notice the other reviews. You should buy a bucket lid opener. You can watch YouTube videos to figure out how to open it. Great taste and smell. Better than quaker oats. It actually tastes like oats. Saves money in the long run. I keep filling up my quaker oats container. I'm giving 5 stars because I did read the comments and people suggested the opener and I didn't listen. So I can't fault the company fur that.

I eat oatmeal every morning. I buy Augason because it is the best and it is economical. The plastic container is handy also. You can't beat it!

this was a great find and just couldnt use it as it wasnt the time //love the way the container and food stayed in the storage made it easy to store and carry

The oats are 100% perfect, fresh, and sealed tightly in a bucket of food-grade quality and THICK plastic. We order three a week due to our usage of oats. We've had many other brands, and this one tops them all in price, storage efficiency (reusable buckets), and oat quality. The picture is 100% what it is. The bucket is even better than the picture...the lid is TOUGH!

I'm very pleased with the quality of this product. It's flavorful, cooks very well and quickly. Perfect for my overnight protein oats and pre workout shakes in the mornings.

Augason Quick Oats are good oats, steamed and rolled thin, packed in a sturdy air-tight container. These oats will keep a very long time, at least the claimed 30 years. You will need tools to open the container, which along with inadequate oxygen absorbent is the reason these oats got 4 but did not get 5 stars. While the bucket has an o-ring built into the lid and will clearly keep for decades, it is not designed to be opened easily and is a hassle to open. Extended long-term storage of oats requires that the oats be rolled thin and steamed, which creates "quick" oats. This process practically sterilizes the oats and hydrolyzes (chemically bonds water to) the starch in the oats. This creates a more stable chemical configuration, making oxidation the only real threat to the longevity of the oats. You must still cook the oats for a minute prior to eating them because steamed oats partially dehydrolyze as soon as the exposure to steam stops, and humans can only digest fully hydrolyzed starches. The only realistic difference between quick oats and so-called old-fashioned rolled oats is a slight difference in texture due to the oats being rolled a little thinner. Old-fashioned rolled oats do not keep as well, not only because they are not sterilized but also because unhydrolized starch breaks down spontaneously over a period of years, even in the absence of oxygen. Some reviews state that the lack of a mylar inner bag will cause the product to degrade. In my opinion, the bucket with its integrated o-ring seal is adequate and makes a mylar inner bag irrelevant. Other reviewers state the oxygen absorber is inadequate. I did the math and found that the oxygen absorber included is about a quarter of the size needed to absorb the oxygen in 10 gallons of air, so some oxygen will remain to slightly degrade the oats. I'm a little surprised that the manufacturer skimped on the oxygen absorbent. The oats will still keep for at least 30 years but it has to be said the oats would benefit from more oxygen absorbent. Good quick oats, which will keep for the stated 30 years, but the bucket is a real pain and the oxygen absorbent is inadequate.

Really good flavor and got alot for the money! Would recommend and buy again!

Large container easy to be use. Cooks well.