'WHY is this in here?' Shopper is left stunned after making a VERY startling discovery about the surprising ingredients in Walmart pesto
- Paden Ferguson, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, caused an uproar online
- A warning on the sauce says it 'may contain traces of anchovies or sardines'
- It also has a caution about possible exposure to 'tuna' and mussels'
A grocery shopper has left the internet stunned after he made a very startling discovery about some of the ingredients in Walmart's pesto.
Paden Ferguson, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently caused an uproar online after he revealed that there are some pretty fishy items used in the food chain's pasta sauce.
In a video shared to his TikTok account last week, Paden explained that if you look closely at the pesto's label, you'll notice that it says the product 'may contain traces of anchovies, sardines, tuna, and mussels.'
After reading the warning to his followers, the TikToker was astounded. He asked in horror, 'Why? Why is this in here?'
Upon looking at Walmart's website, its Great Value Traditional Basil Pesto does indeed have a caution that there may be traces of the seafood in the product.
However none of the fish were listed under the pesto's ingredients, which has lead many to believe that it's likely the sauce was simply made in the same factory as other products that use seafood and that the warning was put on as a precaution.
'It's a cross-contamination warning. It's a legal requirement to list hazardous allergens that share facilities, even if not sharing equipment,' one person wrote.
'It's just a [cover your a**] for seafood allergies. They must produce seafood products in the same factory, or maybe even on the same machine,' someone else said.
Another user added: 'If it's made in a facility that also makes some thing with those, they have to add it especially because they're high allergy foods.
Even so, others were still disgusted by the discovery - and some pointed out that it's dangerous for people who have shellfish allergies since it's not very prominent on the label.
Paden previously went viral on the app for sharing other popular items that he found around the store that contain similar warnings about fish on their labels - including maple syrup, soy sauce, Worcester sauce, and marshmallows.
He also posted a video analyzing the ingredients in Mission's garden spinach herb-flavored wraps, and it got more than 1.2 million views.
In it, he revealed that the wraps didn't have any actual spinach in them - just spinach powder - and the realization left many people on the web outraged.
He also pointed out that blue and yellow food dyes were added to make the wraps appear more green.
'Our food is so bad for no reason,' one disgruntled viewer commented, while another asked, 'Why do they need to add dye to everything?'
'The green coloring tricks people into thinking it’s healthier so they buy it,' someone else added.
'Imagine how easy it would be to just make it with spinach,' a third comment read, while a fourth said, 'The more I learn about processed food the more nervous I get.'
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