Barbara Kline said she was sick for a week after finding the object (Picture: Barbara Evelyn Marie/Guzelian)

A mother-of-two has claimed she was left feeling ill for more than a week after finding a ‘squid-like’ object in her coconut water.

Barbara Kline, from Goshen, New York, said she found the mystery object after drinking nearly all of Vita Coco’s Pure Coconut Water after buying it at a local store.

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She said she was left feeling sick for days and had diarrhoea for over a week and is now demanding an investigation takes place.

‘I feel absolutely sick to my stomach even talking about it,’ she said.


‘I know there is some type of animal in there. I’ve got a told it look like a mouse, I got told it looks like a squid, I got told it looks like a bunch of things that’s why I would like for somebody to get it tested for me that has more authority than me.

She has sent the object off for testing (Picture: Barbara Evelyn Marie/Guzelian)

‘All I want is somebody to see it for themselves and understand that this is not right.



‘I understand that products get mouldy and products get missed package and sometimes spoil but this is just too much for me.’

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Barbara said Vita Coco’s Pure Coconut water was her favourite thing to drink before the incident on April 25.

She posted about the incident on her Facebook page, which has now been shared over 43,000 times.

The drink was due to expire on July 21 this year and had been kept in the refrigerator until Barbara was ready to drink it.

It has been called mouse-like or squid-like (Picture: Barbara Evelyn Marie/Guzelian)

The incident is being investigated by Vita Coco (Picture: Barbara Evelyn Marie/Guzelian)

She said: ‘I took out my refrigerator. I shook it, I opened it, I put a straw in it and then I drank it. It was only when I unknowingly swallowed one of those clumps I realized it tasted awful I started vomiting. The diarrhoea honestly just stopped on Friday

‘I immediately dumped out all the water. I shook it because I heard stuff bouncing around. I opened it with a knife and that’s when I discovered the octopus looking thing. There were four of them all together, maybe five and I swallowed one of them.’

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Barbara visited the doctors and required blood tests as a result of her sickness.

She has sent a clump of the object and her doctor’s notes to the company and is hoping to find out what the mystery object really is.

She also plans to get the objects individually examined.

A spokesman for Vita Coco said: ‘We have been in touch with the consumer, Barbara Kline, multiple times since April 26, 2017.

‘We take all consumer inquiries and product quality issues very seriously, and as a global brand have protocols to properly investigate quality inquiries.

‘We asked Ms. Kline for the product information for this unit on April 26, 2017 so that we could report the issue to quality control and investigate it further, but only received that information on Friday, May 5, 2017.

‘As it stands now, we are reviewing Ms. Kilne’s claim thoroughly so we can assist her in the best manner possible.

‘Vita Coco employ the highest standards of food safety at all its production facilities and our beverages are quality and food safety tested internally, and also by an external quality control specialist, before being distributed.

‘However, because Vita Coco beverages do not contain preservatives, on rare occasion, random spoilage may occur. This is what we are investigating now with Ms. Kline.’



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