A mum has shared her shock after allegedly finding “black sludge” floating inside a Fruit Shoot Squeezee Pop bought from Wilko, that she was intending to feed to her 1-year-old son.

Stephenie, 32, from Kent, claims to have purchased two packs of the product from the retail store in Westwood Cross Shopping Centre, Thanet, Kent on the 26 July around 2.30 pm.

In a clip that has already received 1.6 million views and 50,000 likes, Stephenie shows a number of the tubes containing an unknown black substance.

The pops come as a liquid inside a plastic tube and can be frozen at home, according to the packet instructions.

“My child, who is nearly two, is totally addicted to ice poles, he loves them especially in this hot weather," Stephanie said, before going on to claim: "These were his favourite ones and he was eating one that was previously frozen at the time.

“I opened the outer packaging of one of the new packs I had just purchased and the first thing that I saw was loads of black covering the inside of the outer packaging and also over the ice poles,

“Then as I lifted them out of the pack there were multiple ice poles with black sludge inside still sealed.

"It was gross.”

Footage of the ice pop shows a thick, unknown black substance floating inside one of the tubes.

The mum added: “[I was] disgusted and felt sick as this is such a well-known product and brand.

"I know that mistakes happen in factories etc but was more concerned [about] other children eating them.”

When asked if Stephenie would be checking ice pops in the future, she said: "Yes, definitely.

"For any black substance in the packaging and I will be definitely washing all ice poles before I freeze them going forward as you just don't know what they have touched and your little ones put these in their mouth."

Robinson’s has allegedly reached out to Stephenie to inform her that Fruit Shoot Squeezee Pops are not actually produced by Britvic, but by a confectionary company off-site.

A spokesperson for Wilko issued the following statement: "We're sorry for this customer's experience and will look into this as a priority with our suppliers. We are of course happy to provide a refund.”

A mum has shared her shock after allegedly finding “black sludge” floating inside a Fruit Shoot Squeezee Pop bought from Wilko, that she was intending to feed to her one-year-old son.

Stephenie, 32, from Kent, claims to have purchased two packs of the product from the retail store in Westwood Cross Shopping Centre, Thanet, Kent on the 26 July around 2.30pm.

In a clip that has already received 1.6 million views and 50,000 likes, Stephenie shows a number of the tubes containing an unknown black substance.

The pops come as a liquid inside a plastic tube and can be frozen at home, according to the packet instructions.

“My child, who is nearly two, is totally addicted to ice poles, he loves them especially in this hot weather," Stephanie told NeedToKnow.online, before going on to claim: "These were his favourite ones and he was eating one that was previously frozen at the time.

“I opened the outer packaging of one of the new packs I had just purchased and the first thing that I saw was loads of black covering the inside if the outer packaging and also over the ice poles,

“Then as I lifted them out the pack there were multiple ice poles with black sludge inside still sealed.

"It was gross.”

Footage of the ice pop shows a thick, unknown black substance floating inside one of the tubes.

The mum added: “[I was] disgusted and felt sick as this is such a well-known product and brand.

"I know that mistakes happen in factories etc but was more concerned [about] other children eating them.”

When asked if Stephenie would be checking ice pops in the future, she said: "Yes, definitely.

"For any black substance in the packaging and I will be definitely washing all ice poles before I freeze them going forward as you just don't know what they have touched and your little ones put these in their mouth."

"What is that?" wrote one user.

"I’ve been living off these for the past three weeks," wrote a second person.

"Extra protein," wrote a third person.

"Yum." Wrote a fourth person.

"Looks like primordial soup," wrote a fifth.

Robinson’s has allegedly reached out to Stephenie to inform her that Fruit Shoot Squeezee Pops are not actually produced by Britvic, but a confectionary company off-site.

A spokesperson for Wilko issued the following statement: "We're sorry for this customer's experience and will look into this as a priority with our suppliers. We are of course happy to provide a refund.”

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