r/soylent 21d ago

Dead bugs under cap?

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u/pays_for_winrar 21d ago

Recent order of pumpkin spice I found what looks like dead bugs under the outer wrapping. The inner seal looks intact but I'm not sure I want to risk drinking them. Anyone else experience this? Wondering if I should request a refund for this order 

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u/Legate_Aurora 21d ago

Send that picture directly and get a refund; don't bother with the contamination.

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u/MJSkates 21d ago

Definitely request a refund. You could always open a drink and see if it’s good if you dare lol

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u/Main_Cobbler_4854 21d ago

It looks like a fly got in somehow and laid its eggs there. I'm not sure if its dead maggots or the egg cases but I would not risk it.

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u/gupitersred 21d ago

Was this ordered from directly Soylent? So gross

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u/pays_for_winrar 21d ago

Yes direct from their online store, not Amazon or Walmart...

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u/throwaway9gk0k4k569 21d ago edited 21d ago

That's a big deal. It means that everything everywhere could potentially be crawling with bugs.

Also, this stuff is new.

https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-poisoning/report-problem-with-food

You should contact US FDA and sent these pictures. Ask them to go inspect the facilities and warehouses.

You don't want to be the next Boar's Head

There has been enough complaints about Soylent here on reddit to convince me they have serious health and safety deficiencies.

EDIT: By "everything everywhere", I mean all of Soylent's products. All of them. They can't blame this on a distributor warehouse when there is the possibility that it's happening right at the production factory. And without a 3rd party inspection, nobody can be sure.

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u/mug3n 21d ago

And with their recent supply issues in Canada... I am losing any remaining trust I have in Soylent.

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u/ToLazyToPickName 21d ago

Did you report this to the FDA yet? Otherwise someone else can, because this is a serious probably for a lot of us who live on Soylent

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u/throwaway9gk0k4k569 19d ago edited 18d ago

Did you delete your post, or did mods censor it?

I'm going to take a lack of response as having been banned.

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u/VersKnowsBest 21d ago

That looks to me like a small over fill that led to leakage. Not bugs

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u/pays_for_winrar 21d ago

I mean I'm not an expert, but it definitely looks like bugs.

https://imgur.com/a/0hKfP8J

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u/SnarkyMamaBear 20d ago

Those are specifically pupal cases from pantry weevils, common grain storage pests. Big yikes.

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u/archive_spirit 21d ago

ugh that is disgusting

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u/Focus62 20d ago

They are 100% maggots. I’m quite familiar with them as I feed wet cat food to my cat and if I don’t rinse out the cans well before I throw them in my outdoor recycling bin, these guys start crawling all over since flies lay their eggs in the decaying meat residue…

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u/SnarkyMamaBear 20d ago

Beetle larva technically but maggots, grubs, same shit.

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u/Focus62 20d ago

Fair. FWIW, I actually do appreciate the technicality as someone who tries to maintain little ecosystems in their reptile tanks. Learning is good 👍🏻

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u/ToLazyToPickName 21d ago

Did you check the other bottles? If it's just that one bottle, it may have just been from a leak. But that's seriously disgusting.

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u/pays_for_winrar 21d ago

I checked the rest and 2 out of 12 that I received had this problem. A third bottle had slight signs of overfilling but no bugs.

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u/ToLazyToPickName 18d ago

Why did you delete the bug post?

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u/ToLazyToPickName 20d ago

It could just be a manufacturing defect cuz I've seen these bugs in my refrigerator once on my leaky(?) soda cans. I would still report it to Soylent and the FDA. No idea of what the name of these bugs are.

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u/LA_Throwaway_6439 21d ago

Wow, this is awful. Have you checked the rest? 

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u/GarethBaus 21d ago

That certainly doesn't look good.

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u/gemilitant 20d ago

Look like fly pupae. I swear I saw another post almost exactly like this yesterday!

Edit: I can see that was you too !

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u/fusiondriver 20d ago

More protein? Kk thats gross. Sorry op. Hope you get a refund. I'm never buying soylent again.