A vegan woman was horrified after biting into a Sainsbury’s organic mejool date to find what she claims were dead, small black worm and lots of eggs.
Laura Cuthill, 21, from Edinburgh, said she felt sick and washed her mouth out several times after she bit into the sweet vegan snack.
The student and part-time supermarket worker said she is only finally able to eat dates again two weeks after the experience - but now cuts them in half before eating them.
Although Laura believes she isn’t the one who killed the worm in her date and her vegan values were not 'compromised', she said it reminded her that a ‘perfect vegan’ doesn’t exist.
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