People Are Finding Huge Clumps Of Mold In Their Coconut Water

If you drink coconut water, specifically the Vita Coco brand, you might want to switch things up. Why, you ask? Because one poor, unsuspecting woman found a revolting glob of mold so large it looks like a baby octopus at the bottom of her bottle of coconut water. And now, people are extremely grossed out.

The woman in question is Barbara Kline, a self-professed coconut water devotee. Loyal to the Vita Coco brand, she became violently ill in April after drinking some of the coconut water that had the massive mold growth in it.

“When I took a big gulp, I swallowed a chunk of something,” Kline told BuzzFeed News in an interview. “It tasted very thick and syrupy. It was disgusting.”

When she dumped out the unflavored coconut water from the bottle, she saw it was a strange color and immediately became suspicious. She decided to open the bottle and look inside.

“After I opened it up, I heard things jiggling inside,” Kline said. “And I thought, ‘That doesn’t sound right.’ I took a knife and opened it up and that’s when I discovered those octopus-looking things.”

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Kline said she immediately vomited upon finding the mold growth and has suffered an asthma attack, vomiting and diarrhea since drinking the contaminated coconut water. Then she posted the photo on Facebook (warning, the photo is pretty gross).

https://www.facebook.com/barsha.evelyn/posts/1915672618711604

“I haven’t had an [asthma] attack in like 10 years. Now, all of a sudden I have one?” she said. “God knows if it’s from the mold.”

Because she says she is allergic to mold, Kline immediately went to the doctor to get checked out, but all her tests came back negative. She also asked the FDA to test the mold, but they declined because they only collect “unopened or intact products for laboratory analysis.”