Occurrence of secondary metabolites in milling oats and its de-hulled fractions from harvest years 2017 to 2021.

In this study, secondary metabolites produced by were investigated for their presence in milling oats. For this purpose, pre-cleaned milling oat samples ( = 193), intended for human consumption, out of harvest years 2017 to 2021 originating from different northern European countries were analysed by LC-MS/MS. Alternariol and alternariol methyl ether were positively identified in 38% of the samples with mean values of 2.