Little backstory:
Yesterday I went to an Aldi store because I heard they have good prices. Bought myself muesli to eat in the morning but when I first opened it in the morning I found a worm inside. Best before date is 27.07.2025
So should I stop shopping in Aldi? Because this is not the food quality I am after, especially in Switzerland. Or should this be reported to somebody?
by JoosepR
45 comments
That’s not a bug. That’s a feature. It gives extra protein.
Tell the store what happened ask for your money back. Give them also the LOT (Charge) not only the best before date, so they can check if there are other packages infested.
Generally I can say this can happen with any type of natural products.
Nice try Migros PR person, not falling for that fabricated story /s
Throw everything away immediately and get the trash out of your home! You won‘t be able to get them out if they start spreading. I got i few of them within a christmas basket from Globus. Can happen everywhere they are really persistent and can get in almost everything.
This can happen in any store. But do let them know ASAP. This is a food moth larva, i.e. there was an egg in your box that hatched while it was on the store shelf. Those eggs don’t usually come in singles, there are likely dozens of contaminated boxes and you definitely don’t want those suckers to spread any further (if you’re Aldi).
Also, kill that larva and get this box out of your flat ASAP. Definitely don’t want to risk food moths in your kitchen.
Contact the manufacturer with a receipt and you will likely get some sort of voucher or refund. This is obviously gross but it’s just a part of life. I once bit into a fig newton and got a mouthful of wasp remains. I just shrugged it off, got my refund, and continued shopping at the same store.
You can blame Aldi but I think you can encounter this problem in muesli or other products bought in any shop.
Totally edible
Take the he whole box back to the store and i‘m pretty sure they‘ll refund it. This happened to me with a bag of nuts, not bought from Aldi, a while back. It can happen
That’s a lebensmittelmotte larva. Throw out everything, put up moth traps. If they spread, it’s awful.
Just get your money back from ALDI. I don’t think you should stop shopping there because of this though.
Extra protein
Was it not supposed to be a butterfly by now?
Sometimes, I ask myself how people are able to live by themselves, seeing posts like this.
extra protein, for less price. bet you can’t find these at coop or migros. we shall thank aldi.
Mostly a Lebensmittelmottenlarve… it’s not directly ALDIs fault, these animals are everywhere…
That’s a sign that this muesli is tasty
Food is not sterile. Not in Aldi, not in Switzerland.
Do you think someone checks every particle with a microscope? People seem to think food grows on the shelf.
You wouldn’t want to know what could be in processed stuff like marmalade or tomato sauce. But at least there it isn’t alive though.
Report it. Get your money back. But it’s not available for this kind of product.
There must be something, we got them too the other day
How to get rid of these things? I’ve been killing 10-20 of these a day in the last 2 weeks
extra protein
That food has a bug. /s
Just some Protein. 🤷🏼♂️
You need to throw away the open stuff that you had next to it immediately. There will be more of them. Once you see them it is too late and they’re hard to get rid of.
D: i bought the same one yesterday, i shall scan it carefully now
Extra protein
“Shit happens.” We eat natural products. They’re mostly clean, but not sterile.
Even fresh vegetables could have worms. Even also dried dates.
Throw away that package sealed. Pick next one, hopyfully from another production charge.
Well, you could sue them for lying about it being vegetarian 😅
Definitiv nicht mehr vegetarisch
Shows it’s healthy those moth larvae don’t live in high sugar or salt foods
Hum, Vegans need protein right? Lol. Jokes aside. It’s disgusting.
You’ve no idea the amount of big material that’s allowed in food products. Caught this one.
I see extra protein dude XD… nein joking… yikes!
it is proof that it is bio
As others have said, it’s a larvae of what is commonly called “food moth” (in fact there are several different species of moths that are subsumized under that name).
Problem with those fellas is that they can drill through paper, carton and thin plastic. So if your kitchen becomes infested with them, they’ll spread into every product they can (packs of flour, rice, pasta, cereals, …)
What helps is pheromone-traps. They reliably attract the male moths. So you know if you still have an infestation and the spread is also greatly reduced if the males are caught in the trap before they can fertilise the females. You can get them in many supermarkets.
So the way you have described the thing, we can assume that the larvae came with the cereals (and wasn’t already in your cupboard and has then drilled into the cereals). So I would just get rid of the pack (e.g. return it to Aldi) and put a pheromone trap to make sure that you don’t have an infestation already. (Which you probably haven’t if you just bought the pack yesterfday.)
It can happen with products from any store, not just Aldi. It helps to transfer stuff from it’s original packaging into airtight containers made of glass, metal or thick plastic. (Because the larvae can’t drill in or out of such containers.)
This happened to me with oats I had bought from coop so it can happen at any shop. I had a hard time getting rid of the little moths for months!!! Make sure you throw it out and sanitise your kitchen and I mean ALL of it or you’re in for a wild ride 😅😂
Thought it was a dirty Zehennagel at first.
Wtf packaged food can have this?
Found the same little friend in a peach from the Migros, 2 weeks ago.
Aldi is a discount store. It trades quality for cheap price. You can’t have both.
Found an enormous bug in my frozen spinach from Migros the other day. Had already eaten most on my plate 🤢
Had the exact same last week in a pack of muesli from the German Aldi across the border except it was an adult moth. Threw it out after killing in the freezer and brought the receipt back for a refund and new pack the next time I was there.
Very unpleasant and off putting. And no indication that any other store may be better than Aldi. But I understand these things are factually not a health hazard. I agree however with how invasive and difficult to get rid of they are. Glass jars with screw airtight lids are useful. They even get into unopened plastic packets.
This is why you dont buy in Aldi / Lidl. You get what you pay for.
It‘s some extra protein.