Grubs up: Shocked mum finds live MAGGOT in Tesco Value potatoes

A mum opened a tin of potatoes from Tesco and found something that wasn’t one of her ‘five-a-day’ - a white MAGGOT crawling inside.

Teaching assistant Amanda Cooper was preparing dinner for her children Aidan, 12, and Abby, 10, when she spotted the live bug.  

The Tesco Value tin - which cost just 15p - had a sell-by date of March 2017.

Amanda, 33, bought it from a Tesco Express store near her home in Cambridge.

She said: ‘It was horrible. When you buy a tin of something which has been processed in what you think is a clean environment, you expect to get just what you want.

‘It put me right off. It was a Saturday afternoon sausage and broccoli dinner, just something easy for a Saturday.

‘I buy the tin occasionally to back up my cupboards, just to have as a staple.

‘In the end they just had the sausage and broccoli. I kept schtum about it until after we had eaten, but when Aidan saw the tin he was absolutely horrified.’

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Amanda added: ‘I took it back on Sunday, and they refunded me my 15p, and said someone would get in touch.

‘I was happy with the way they dealt with it in store, but I am really put off buying any tinned stuff now, and I won't be shopping in Tesco any time soon.

‘When you buy lettuce or fresh food you wash your salad as you might get little things there where it's straight out of a field into the shop, but when you have got something processed that has been tinned it opens all sorts of questions.’

A Tesco spokeswoman said: ‘We set ourselves high standards for the quality of the food we sell and were disappointed to hear of this incident.

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‘We have contacted our supplier to investigate and our customer service team will update Miss Cooper with the findings.’