If You Notice This In Your Food, Throw It Away Immediately!

– [Narrator] Once upon a time, we humans foraged mountains high and valleys low in order to appease our rumbling tummies. These days, all we need worry about is scavenging the aisles of Walmart, and while that can be just as wild at times, you can bet that all the food in grocery store is

Safe to eat, right? Well, uh, let’s just say that this video will give you a lot of food for thought. Take this for example. Have you ever noticed a weird white spot on your banana? Well, I sincerely hope not, as the truth about this white spot, and the other horrifying food-based revelations

We’ve got in store, will truly make your skin crawl. So what are these strange little mounds, and why should you be concerned? Well, these little white growths are actually the nests of spiders, and not just any spider, the Brazilian Wandering spider, AKA the world’s most venomous. Their bite is so toxic that it instantly attacks the nervous system, causing nausea, blurred vision,

Excruciating pain, and ultimately, death. So, almost as painful as a hangover, ugh. Rarely will you find them outside of their South American homeland, but due to their love of hiding in dark, moist places, they occasionally smuggle themselves between bananas, where they make the journeys from the tropical regions they’re harvested in

To your local grocery store and eventually, your home. In fact, in 2013, a British family had to evacuate their London home, as dozens of the deadly spiders sprouted from their bananas. 29-year-old Consi Taylor was midway through eating a banana when she spotted a suspicious white spot on the fruit.

Mold, she initially assumed, but on closer inspection, she was horrified to see tiny spiders dropping out onto the table and scurrying around. The Taylors fled to safety and had their home fumigated of these deadly spiderlings. Luckily, even in their natural habitat, only 1 in 500 spiderlings of this species make it to adulthood,

And their fangs aren’t strong enough to pierce human flesh until they’re mature, meaning any real danger was fairly unlikely. Still, I don’t think I’d have peace-of-mind until I knew each and every one of the little eight-legged lurkers were disposed of. Okay, so finding a nest of baby spiders is scary, sure,

But imagine finding a more developed Brazilian wandering spider along for the journey. Well, this horror story became a reality for a Staten Island family in 2016, as they returned from the grocery store with a little more than they’d bargained for. I’ll let you see for yourself. – [Woman 1] What is it?

– [Woman 2] It’s alive! – [Woman 1] What is that? Is that the mother? – [Man] It is huge! – [Woman 2] That’s a baby. – [Woman 1] No, that must be the mom. – [Mom] No, you gotta see. The babies are in here. – [Woman 1] The babies are over there in the corner. – [Man] These little white-

– [Woman 2] Nope, nope, I just saw one. I can’t. Oh, it’s gonna make me vomit. – [Woman 1] I feel better now that I see it. – [Man] Oh, look at that big fat butt! – [Woman 2] I can’t look at it.

– [Man] I wanna know what kind of spider this is. – [Woman 1] Take a picture of it. – [Narrator] If that were me, then let’s just say this spider would be very flat and stuck on the bottom of my shoe! The breed of this grizzly spider is unconfirmed,

Though being from South America, it’s likely one of those venomous Brazilian Wandering spiders, seemingly the only one of its brood that reached adolescence in its little egg sac apartment. Considering the bite from one of these can ultimately lead to death, the only rational choice here would be to burn the banana

And the house along with it, for good measure. And if that isn’t bad enough, imagine discovering a black widow just chilling in your broccoli. Yep, in 2018, Jacob Vaughn, a student from Ohio, stumbled across this eight-legged buddy in his broccoli. While it’s true that the black widow’s venomous bite

Can lead to nausea, breathing difficulties, and muscle fatigue, thankfully, they rarely result in death. So when life’s not only giving you lemons, but also venomous spiders in your veggies, you’ve gotta find the positives in life, right? And in a twist of fate, this hellish tale did indeed have a happy ending.

After alerting the local animal sanctuary, Jacob’s spidey friend was adopted and given the cute name Broccoli by the Ohio Another Chance Sanctuary. Finding a black widow in your broccoli is hardly a common occurrence. Of all things, you’re much more likely to find tiny bugs called aphids infesting your frozen broccoli,

As the FDA actually allow up to 60 of them per 100 grams. These little critters are notorious for infesting gardens and regularly make their way into your broccoli, homes, and eventually, stomachs, but trust me, you’ll soon see that’s not half as bad as some of the other things

People have found in their food. Aboard the orange! The timeless orange is the 5th most popular fruit in the world, and with its benefits ranging from improving skin and brain development, to allegedly even decreasing the risk of colon cancer, it’s no surprise we can’t get enough of them, but wait!

Before you go buy a bucket-load of this miracle fruit, you might want to hear to Hassan Ali’s story first. In 2014, Hassan purchased a pack of mandarins from the British grocery store, Sainsbury’s. In the midst of a mandarin binge, the 25-year-old tucked into his fourth orange,

Only to peel open a real-life horror story. What lay before him was a big, fat maggot with an entourage of eggs. Maggots like this one are the spawn of fruit flies, and as their name might suggest, they mostly lay their eggs in and around fruit, or on other moist, organic materials.

As their tiny larvae emerge from eggs, they continue to feed off the fruit until they eventually grow into the buzzing beasts we know as flies. Isn’t the circle of life beautiful? While supermarket fruit undergoes rigorous inspections in order to meet consumer standards, occasionally anomalies like this do slip through,

If a fruit fly is able to burrow into the fruit undetected, but an anomaly is just how Hassan saw it, as even this nightmare wasn’t enough to put him off his favorite fruit. Having been awarded a Sainsbury’s gift card as compensation, he had plenty of cash to splash on his recreational orange addiction,

Though hopefully without the added protein next time. Rest in peanuts. The FDA, AKA the Food and Drug Administration, is the US institution responsible for maintaining food and safety standards, so it’s pretty alarming to find out that they actually approve of up to 11 rodent hairs in a typical jar of peanut butter,

And the fun doesn’t stop there. Official standards state that the average jar would need in excess of 30 insect fragments before it would pose a health risk, meaning you’re probably getting protein from more than just the peanuts, and it’s health standards such as these that have shrouded the peanut industry in scandal.

Yep, in 2008, the Peanut Corporation of America was shaken to the core when their peanut butter, under the brands of Peter Pan and Great Value, rendered 714 people ill and 9 dead. It all began when the CEO, Stewart Parnell, dismissed internal reports that his stock was contaminated with dust and rat droppings.

As a result of this willing ignorance towards maintaining safety standards, Parnell knowingly sold a batch of peanut butter that ultimately proved to contain lethal amounts of salmonella. All because, he claimed, he couldn’t afford to lose another customer. Ironically, this resulted in him losing nine customers forever, as they perished from their poisoned peanuts.

In the end, however, justice reigned supreme. The Peanut Corporation of America went defunct, and Parnell the peanut predator was penalized with 28 years in prison in 2015, but as far as far as peanut butter sandwiches are concerned, it seems not even the bread is safe from disconcerting traits. Beyond the flour and yeast,

There’s an unexpected beast lurking in our loaves, and its name is L-Cysteine. Beneath the mask of this vague name lies an uncomfortable truth, human hair. Yep, our supermarket loaves are loaded with the stuff, as it is reported to strengthen the gluten and feed the yeast, which produces a reliable loaf

And shortens the production time. The good news is that it’s mainly used in commercial bread production, so shopping locally from bakeries means you can avoid this tangle. While L-Cysteine, an amino acid, is mostly sourced from cow horns, and duck and chicken feathers, The Guardian reports that human hair is also often used,

Mainly swept from Chinese hair salon floors and into our loaves. Well, kinda. First, the hair’s boiled in concentrated hydrochloric acid and activated carbon, then treated by electrolysis, resulting in the usable amino acid. So, while it’s not as if you’ll find actual hairs in your bread,

It still feels like a less deadly version of Sweeny Todd. Extra-terrestrial tuna. Nothing that comes in a can is ever particularly fresh, and while the cheap price often reflects this lesser quality, I’d say finding an alien-like creature hidden in your can of tuna is just one step too far.

In 2015, British mom, Zoe Butler, found extra-terrestrial life inside her can of tuna, or so it seemed. As she peeled open the can, a two-eyed, limbless, squidgy creature gawped back at her. Stuart Hine, from London’s Natural History Museum, identified the creature as a young Cymothoa exigua, not an alien, but a tongue-eating parasite!

This creature enters fish through the gills and severs the blood vessels in its tongue, causing it to fall off. The Cymothoa attaches itself to the remaining stub and becomes the fish’s new tongue, feeding on its blood and mouth mucus. Luckily for Zoe, her itsy-bitsy tongue louse was already dead.

Plus, she doesn’t have gills, so her tongue was left intact, though I’m sure its presence still left her speechless. While it’s possible that this little guy had attached himself to a tuna fish’s tongue, how he’d make it into the can in one piece defied explanation. Princes, who manufactured the tuna can,

Think they may have an explanation, though. They think the creature may not be a tongue-louse, but instead a Megalopa, a small breed of crab that tuna prey on. The company suggests its legs were likely chopped off during the process, leaving the bug-eyed body behind. Whatever the reason for its presence,

I’ll be skipping tuna salad for a little while. Le Restaurant de Reddit. Reddit is a real melting pot of the weird, wonderful, and everything in between, so, if you happen to find something gross lurking in your food, then there’s really no better place to share it!

Let’s take a look at Reddit’s not-so-finest dishes. First up is from user Aprilvalgreen. As she tucked into a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos, she came across an odd-shaped chip. Sharing it with Reddit to try and figure out what it was, the comment section suggested this was no chip at all.

Instead, this was a mouse that had been squished, baked, seasoned, and sealed into a pack of Cheetos, and though there’s little to confirm this was the case, the fact the texture was described as tough jerky leads me to assume this was no Cheeto, and what could be worse than

Finding a mouse in your Cheetos? Uh, well, perhaps finding a brain inside your Salsa Verde? Yep, this one comes from user Zapple27, and while it’s unlikely that it was actually a brain, you can’t deny the sickening resemblance. A few users in the comments theorized it might be a clump of xanthan gum,

A kind of emulsifier used in manufacturing to stabilize ingredients and prevent them from separating. Others suspected a mother of vinegar, which is a gelatinous disc made up of cellulose and acetic acid that can turn liquids into vinegar. Whatever the case, I would absolutely toss that thing in the trash!

This astounding next find comes from user AtomicCypher. After treating their family to lobster Christmas lunch, they had been shocked to find out that it’d been bulked up with an old spark plug. Now, that wasn’t very Christmas-y, was it? These devices are used in car engines to ignite fuel,

But in this case, its purpose was to sneakily increase the lobster’s weight, and hence, price. Shockingly, this has happened more than once, as fellow Redditor Cold_as_eyes discovered his lobster’s weight had also been tampered with by the weight of a spark plug. So either there are some sneaky fishermen out there,

Or these lobsters need a tune-up from the mechanic! Beetle juice. When it comes to candy, we’re all aware of its high sugar contents, but are there any other ingredients in there that we should be concerned with? Well, bluntly, yes. Shellac is a type of resin that is used in candies, such as jellybeans,

In order to achieve that hard, glossy outer shell texture. Though don’t be fooled by this alias, as the real identity of shellac is, in fact, bug poop. Yep, straight from the poop-shoot of the female lac bug that populates India and Thailand, the dung is scraped from tree branches,

And through a treating, heating, and cooling process, is transformed into flat sheets of dried shellac. This rear-end resin is thought to have been discovered in the 13th century, and can be used as anything from wood varnish to cosmetics, to popular candies, such as Candy Corn,

Hershey’s Whoppers, and Tootsie Rolls, to name a few. I guess one bug’s poop is another man’s candy, and it turns out there’s more than just bug excretions in your candy too. The crushed-up and boiled bodies of cochineal bugs also make their way in,

Hidden under the stage name of carmine or Natural Red 4. This Aztec recipe is more than 5 centuries old, and involves crushed cochineal bugs boiled and treated in chemical solutions in order to extract their red coloring, which will be used as food dye. In fact, prior to 2009,

Skittles actually included both shellac and carmine, meaning you weren’t so much tasting the rainbow as you were a dead bug and its poop. Scary dairy. Stealing someone else’s breast milk sounds like a criminally abhorrent act, yet over the course of 6,000 years, we’ve turned cow’s milk into a global industry

Worth around $718 billion. Even with increasing veganism, numbers are on the up, as we globally squeezed more than 544 metric tons of milk in 2021, but besides the slightly weird implications of drinking another animal’s motherly milk, are there any other reasons we may want to lay off dairy?

Cows only produce milk after they’ve had a baby, and with a billion-dollar industry riding on it, you can bet that farmers will do anything to get their daily squeeze. Repeatedly artificially inseminating cows is common-practice, and the cow’s frequent pregnancies can cause a condition known as mastitis.

Not only is this painful for the cow, it causes their milk to become contaminated with blood and pus, but not in quantities that are always easy to detect and filter out. Mastitis milk is widely accepted, as the FDA allow for 750 million cells of pus per liter in the US,

While in Australia, there is simply no limit, and if that doesn’t leave a sour taste in your mouth, then perhaps this will. In 2016, it was reported that the Australian grocery store Coles actually had to remove milk from their shelves because it contained not some, but too much cow poop.

Which, considering the proximity of cow butt to udder, plus the fact that these animals are hooked up to machines all day, it’s reasonable to assume this is a common occurrence. While pasteurization gets rid of harmful bacteria, it’s still pretty unnerving to think about what else we might be guzzling down with our cereal.

Oat milk suddenly just got a lot more appealing! On the topic of harvesting animals’ reproductive materials, we also need to talk about chickens, and the unfertilized eggs we love to devour. With the original life-giving purpose of the humble chicken egg in mind, creations like the long egg almost seem satanic.

This defilement of all things holy was designed in Denmark 46 years ago by the company Danaeg, with a view to make cutting perfectly uniform boiled eggs a breeze. In order to create this, manufacturers first separate the white from the yolk. The white is cooked into a hallow, cylindrical tube,

Leaving a hole through the center where the yolk will be injected, in order to forge the appearance of a perfectly proportioned egg when sliced, and while it’s still 100% egg, something about the whole process just gives me the creeps. Something smells fishy.

As long has man has existed, so has his love for alcohol. I mean, Jesus wouldn’t say no to a cold one with the boys, would he now? Our eternal booze-cruise is thought to date back to 7,000 BC, but as far as wine’s concerned, whether you’re a red kinda person, white, or rose,

There’s something fishy going on with all of them. You probably assume your vino is made up of just fermented grape juice, right? After all, that’s mostly true, yet there’s a slippery ingredient often used in wine known as isinglass, which is actually code for a substance sourced from the dried swim bladders of fish.

Gross, huh? And the worst part is that it isn’t even necessary. Its only purpose is to efficiently clarify the wine and make it less cloudy, something which most wine does by itself within a few days, but with a 1.8 trillion dollar industry riding on it, time certainly is money,

So they choose to speed it up the fishy way! Now, this isn’t to say that all wines contain fish bladder, but many do, making it especially difficult for our vegan friends to get their next tipple. Rest assured, though, experts claim unfiltered wines without isinglass are still just as good to go,

And honestly, after a few glasses, everything starts to look a little hazy anyway. Nasty nuggets. In 1963, humanity was blessed with the humble chicken nugget, thanks to agricultural scientist Robert C. Baker. Since then, Americans have come to consume an annual average of around 2.3 billion nuggets, and that’s just from McDonald’s,

But is it really chicken that lies beyond the crispy batter, or is it something more fraudulent, like the pink gloop internet legend would have us believe? Well, McDonald’s have dismissed these rumors that tarnish their nugget’s good name. The goop in this viral image is reportedly either soft-serve ice cream,

Or a mix of scrap-meat and ammonium hydroxide used as filler for pet foods, depending on what sources you consult. McDonald’s, meanwhile, claim their nuggets are made from 100% chicken breast, though when that stuff’s ground-up, it hardly looks much better. However, not all nuggets are created equal, and online sources claim that

Nuggets from other restaurants and retailers may have a few special ingredients in them, these being tendons, connective tissue, fat, and even crushed-up bones, meaning there’s a lot more of the chicken in those nuggets than you may have realized, but as far as McDonald’s is concerned, perhaps it isn’t the pink gloop

Or bony nuggets we should be worrying about. In 2020, British mom Laura Arber bought her 6-year-old daughter some chicken McNuggets. It seemed to be a happy meal. That was, until she began choking. As Laura induced vomiting in her daughter, she was shocked to see specks of blue in what came out.

It soon became apparent that, alarmingly, a blue face mask had been baked into the nugget. Check out what happened when Laura dissected the nugget. Talk about a sign of the times, right? After returning to the restaurant, Laura claims she didn’t even receive an apology, but she was more concerned about

Whether they were going to continue serving their clearly contaminated stock. Shockingly, they did, but, hey, it was 2020. It was probably a fun COVID edition of their Happy Meal! The origin of this masked nugget remains a mystery, though it’s likely to have fallen off one of the factory workers

During the meat grinding or nugget-cutting process. Either way, it’s sure to provide fuel to the flames of crazed anti-maskers who like to claim governments are shoving masks down our throats. Oh, McDonald’s, what have you done? Tater terror. You say potato, I say po-tah-to, yet I think we can all agree

They’re one of the most versatile resources we have. From chips, fries, and mash, to even generating electricity, there ain’t much a potato can’t do, which is exactly why you should be a little worried. Potnonomicaphobia isn’t just a tongue twister, it’s the fear of potatoes, and I know, I know, scoff all you will,

But it turns out potatoes can be pretty deadly. Yep, if you ever come across a potato with green spots on it, it’s probably best to toss it in the trash. These green potatoes likely contain a poisonous chemical known as solanine, and while death by potato is more likely to happen

If someone throws one at your head, these little suckers are capable of other damage, from inducing nausea, vomiting, and headaches, to a lovely case of diarrhea, but why? Well, it’s mainly to do with sun exposure. When exposed to sunlight, potatoes produce chlorophyll, a pigment which turns them green,

And while this itself is completely harmless, it can also signal the presence of solanine. Being over-exposed to sunlight will only increase this, so proper storage is recommended, such as a cool, dark place. Sources suggest that physical damage, as well as notably high or low temperatures, can stimulate solanine production too.

The solanine level are typically highest in the peel, but while peeling them can significantly reduce solanine content, studies suggest that much of the toxicity remains in the flesh, meaning a peeled potato may still cause illness, even when cooked. All this toxicity is purposeful though, as it protects the potato from insects and bacteria.

Now, I’m no farmer, but maybe we could just put some sunscreen on them or something. Finger food. Stats show the USA produces around 6.4 billion pounds of frozen dessert per year, and while, as a nation, it seems we can’t keep our fingers off these delicious treats,

Certain people can’t keep their fingers out of them. Picture this. The year is 2005, and North Carolina resident Clarence Stowers stops by a Kohl’s Frozen Custard drive-through. As he returns home and tucks into his frozen custard, he notices a lump in it. However, initially assuming it to be candy, he continues the feast.

Confused and unable to put his finger on the candy’s flavor or texture, he spits it out and investigates. It wasn’t long before a shriek escaped his body, and he discovered what appeared to be a freshly severed human finger in his dessert, but it wasn’t just Clarence having a tough day.

How about the guy who the finger belonged to? Well, that was 23-year-old Kohl’s employee, Brandon Fizer. As he tried to catch a falling bucket of custard, his hand got caught in the machine that beats the custard mix, where his index finger was swiftly trimmed at the first knuckle. Amidst the chaos,

Clarence rolled up at the drive-through window, where an unsuspecting employee served up a fresh scoop of human flesh. Reports claim that Clarence took legal action against the frozen dessert joint and kept Brandon’s finger in his freezer as legal evidence. The outcome remains unknown, though I sincerely hope he eventually returned Brandon’s finger.

Man, this story gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” And that’s all the time we have for today, folks! If any of these facts left you particularly grossed out, then let me know down in the comments, and share your own if you have any.

And as always, thanks for watching.