A North Carolina boy says he was shocked to find an added ingredient in his Capri Sun juice drink: a worm. One thing is to see the worm but for it to catch you by surprise because you sipped out of the straw and it fell in your mouth(yuck!) is another. Click below to read the rest.
“He went to go take a sip of the drink and he started choking,” his alarmed mom, Christina Stewart, told WSOC-TV. “So he pulled the worm out of his mouth and he was like, ‘Oh mommy, this is so nasty.'”
Alarmed, she called Capri Sun’s parent company — Kraft Foods — and her child’s doctor.
She said Kraft seemed unsympathetic and merely told her it would refund her money, according to the report.
In a statement to WSOC-TV, Kraft said the substance was probably mold — not a worm.
“Since our Capri Sun products are made without preservatives — a fact many moms like — if there’s even a small hole in a pouch and air gets into it, mold similar to common bread mold can form. This is why we advise on the side of the box to discard any leaking pouches,” the company said.
Kraft said the furious mother didn’t give the company a chance to investigate.
“With regard to Ms. Stewart’s call to us, before our representative could ask her to send us the pouch in question, Ms. Stewart disconnected the call. However, we will ask one of our executive consumer representatives to call her,” Kraft added.
Stewart said she is waiting for results from a lab about what the substance was.
Stewart and her child aren’t the first people to say they discovered less-than-sanitary substances in the popular drinks. On YouTube, various kids and adults have told their stories about finding worms in Capri Sun.
On the company’s Facebook page, users also noted they had found mold in their drinks.
“I opened a new box of capri sun today to give my girls a pouch with their dinner and to my surprise…the box of filled with MOLD! Apparently, one of the pouches leaked (because it was empty) and it formed mold inside the box! It was nasty!” Jennifer Sandhu wrote.
Others expressed their concern over the worm story.
“Yikes … I was looking on this page for a coupon, but now I think I will pass all together,” Carin Cox Walling wrote.
