Date: December 31, 2025
Flour
The yoshon cutoff dates for the following products are as follows:
Robin Hood, Five Roses, Selection & any flour using the following plant codes:
| Year | Date Code1 | Plant Code | Comments |
| 5 | 244 | 548 | All Purpose Flour – retail & Costco pack |
| 5 | 267 | 548 | Cake and Pastry Flour only |
| 5 | 342 | 715 | |
| 5 | 259 | 640 |
1These numbers or lower are yoshon. Isolate the plant code from the full code that is printed on the bag and then find the year and date codes.
Flour (COR 285) – Conventional flour – BB date of Sept 3/26. Organic: BB Oct 10/26. Whole Wheat flour Conventional: BB date June 3/26, Organic: BB July 10/26.
P&H, Great Plains, Compliments and any flour with a “PH” in the code – The lot # will start with a
5 (for 2025) then xxx for the date then xx for the plant i.e. 5 242 09. Use code 5 268 for plant 02; code 5 242 for plant 09.
Ardent Mills, Robin Hood, Golden Temple or any flour with a COR323 – for plant ‘SK’- a date code of 5-244 or lower. For plant code ‘MT’ – a date code of 5-252 or lower. Durum semolina and Atta flour 5-258 or lower.
No Name Flour – if the BB date includes ‘PFM’ use the code – BB Sept 3/26 for white flour, June 3/26 for whole wheat flour. If it includes ‘PH’ use the codes – BB Sept 25/26 for white flour, June 25/26 for whole wheat flour.
PC Flour – All Purpose flour – any product in the marketplace is yoshon.
Rodelle Flour – code of 25308Y92 or lower (i.e. 25307Y92) is yoshon.
LA Milanese / Boreal flour (conventional & organic)-will remain yoshon until March 2026.
Rogers Foods – White flour BB Oct 23, 2026. Whole wheat, wheat germ and bran BB June 23, 2025.
Spelt flour – in eastern Canada is always yoshon
Robin Hood, Ardent Mills Oats (COR 323) – code of 5-273 or lower.
Quaker Oats (COR 112) – All products that contain oats – date code of 09 28 P 5 or earlier.
Quaker Oats Family / Costco Pack – code of 0928 following the Best Before date. 5N5 is the year code; ignore other codes, i.e. 2025 SE 27 0928 5N5 0263.
Quaker Oats Bran cereal – date code of 10 03 P 5 or earlier
Pearl Milling (Aunt Jemima) Pancake Mixes (all types) – will remain yoshon.
Quaker Bakery mixes that contain only wheat but no oats – are still yoshon, stock up now.
No Name – Large Flake, One Minute and Quick oats – BB 2026 Sept 4 (this date does not apply to single serve packets).
Cereals
General Mills
Cheerios (all types) – BB Sept 22, 2026
Nature Valley Granola bars – BB 16 SE 2026, CO plant only
Selection Oatmeal packets (MK705) – BB Sept 16, 2026
Post Cereals (COR 123)
Weetabix (regular and organic), Organic Bran Flakes, Alpen (Muesli) reg. & no sugar – yoshon
Barbara’s Puffins Original and Cinnamon, Morning Oat Crunch – yoshon
Please note: this facility is closing. The items noted above, when bearing a COR123 were produced yoshon. If they bear a different COR # they may not be yoshon. Some of these products are being transferred to a non-kosher certified facility. Double check for the COR symbol.
Post Cereals (COR 114)
Shredded Wheat, Spoon Size Shredded Wheat Original; Spoon Size Shredded Wheat & Bran are always yoshon.
Shreddies – Original, Honey, and Cinnamon Vanilla – still yoshon
Raisin Bran – still yoshon
Cranberry Almond Crunch – BB Nov 1 2026
Kellogg Canada (COR 246)
All Bran, Raisin Bran, Bran Flakes, Corn Flakes, Honeynut Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes and Rice Krispies – still yoshon
Corn Pops – are yoshon (oat flour is not a yoshon concern)
Froot Loops (Canadian only) – BB Nov 6, 2026
Presidents Choice (COR 1)
Crunchy Cranberry Almond – BB 2 Dec 2026
Loads of Raisins Raisin Bran – still yoshon
PC Blue Menu (COR 1) – Fibre First Multibran cereal – BB date 30 Nov 2026
Barley – barley in the stores may very possibly be chodosh; dates must be checked.
Kosher City – flour and barley repacked by Kosher City with a COR yoshon label only.
PC Blue Menu Barley and Great Value Barley – lot code of 25317 or lower
NuPak barley – code of 5324xx or lower (ignore last two characters)
Cedar (Phoenicia) barley – code of PD50809 or lower
Gefen, Ungar’s & Jack and the Beanstalk – Will remain yoshon.
Italpasta and any other pasta bearing COR 136 – BB Oct 2 2027
Grisspasta – Regular Pasta – best before 2028 Oct 3, Whole grain, Vegetables, Egg Pasta – best before 2027 Oct 3.
Primo (COR 78) – BB Oct 7 2028
Ronzoni (Catelli & Lancia) (COR 235) – Regular (white) pasta – BB Oct 5, 2028 or earlier. Whole wheat & Egg BB Oct 5, 2027
Catelli (with an MK) – Use same codes as Grisspasta
Unico – Use same coding as for Primo.
PC/No Name Pasta (COR 1) – use same code as Italpasta
Ferenez /Mama (MK) – will remain yoshon.
Pita Bros (pita & breadcrumbs)- will remain yoshon
Lenchner’s – All products – will remain yoshon
Tova’s Bakery – All products are yoshon except those containing oats and multigrain and sourdough.
Frozen Pie and Tart Shells any brand with COR 583 – BB Sept 22, 2026
No Name Frozen Pie and Tart Shells (COR 1) – BB Sept 22, 2026
Made Good Granola Bars & Bites – Best Before June 23, 2026
No Name Honey Graham Crumbs – Currently yoshon, subject to change
Earth’s Own Oat Milk refrigerated products (all types) – BB Jan 10 2026
Earth’s Own Oat Milk shelf stable products– Oat Zero Sugar Unsweetened Vanilla & Oat Nog – Best Before Sept 2 2026. Barista Oat, Oat Vanilla GF, Oat Chocolate and Oat Vanilla – BB Dec 2 2026
Earth’s Own Oat Milk used in Starbucks shops (this is not the Starbucks labeled product sold in independent stores) BB April 2 2026
Some of the establishments detailed below produce both Yoshon and non-Yoshon products. Kaylim may not be dedicated exclusively for Yoshon products.
Any Sushi that contains wheat is not certified yoshon, even in an “all yoshon” establishment.
Amazing Donuts – All products manufactured on site are yoshon.
Bali Laffa – Pita and Laffa bread only are yoshon.
Bubby’s Bagels -all products are yoshon.
Dr. Laffa Bakery – All baked and packaged products are yoshon (except those containing oats and multigrain).
Ester’s Kosher Bakery – Only products with a special COR yoshon sticker.
Dr. Laffa on the Go (both locations)- Pita and Laffa bread only are yoshon.
Grodzinski Bakery (North)- All products made on site are yoshon except soups, wraps, multigrain and products containing bran and oats.
Grodzinski Bakery (South) – All products made on site are yoshon.
Haymishe Bakery – All baked products are yoshon except those containing oats and bran. Cholent, soups, yerushalmi kugel and pasta are not yoshon.
Hermes – All products made on site are yoshon.
Howie T’s Burger Bar – Buns and burgers only are yoshon
King David Pizza (frozen) – All pizza products are yoshon**
Kosher City Bakery (incl. Randi’s) – only products with COR yoshon sticker
My Zaidy’s Bakery – All products made on site are yoshon except organic breads, soups, multigrain and any product containing bran and oats.
Isaac’s KCP Bakery -All products are yoshon.
Olive Branch Bakery – only products with COR yoshon sticker
Pizza Cafe – Pizza only is yoshon**
Richmond Kosher Bakery – not supervised for yoshon.
Slice N Bites – All products are yoshon**
Sobeys Bakery – Only products with COR yoshon sticker
Surreal Bakery packaged products – all yoshon.
Surreal Sweets Bakery & Café (3513 Bathurst) – baked items that come from Surreal Bakery are yoshon. Café items that are manufactured on site are not supervised for yoshon.
Top Slice – Pizza, Falafel & French fries are yoshon**
Tov Li Pizza (both locations) – Regular & Spelt Pizzas, ** pitas, cookies, bourekas, blintzes, pasta, soups, croutons (incl. whole wheat), gravy and barley are yoshon.
**Imitation pepperoni used in Pepperoni Pizza is not yoshon.
Please Note:
Latest changes highlighted in blue.
The above information applies to products manufactured in or for Canada only.
The COR does not endorse any of its establishments for Yoshon except as detailed above.