To never buy broccoli again after reading Ocado reviews?

[SabineDeux]

I feel sick. Was just looking for best broccoli on Ocado and wondered why they are all low rated in the reviews. Most of the comments say the broccoli is full of worms and slugs!!!!!!! 🤢Can this be true? Have I been merrily eating worms all this time? I don't think I'll ever buy broccoli again. Grossed out.

Soak in salty water. Insects will die.

I stopped buying broccoli from ocado months ago as it always had funny cocooned moths or something hidden really well inbetween the florets.

I buy it from Lidl now and have no problems

Broccoli is a fantastically healthy vegetable and, apparently, anti carcinogenic. My Dad would always say that whatever creatures were in the apple/plum or whatever were eating only that fruit so it wasn't worth getting hysterical about it. Do you not remember that terrible joke from school? 'What's worse than finding a maggot in your apple? Finding half a maggot!'

Omg as a vegetarian I’m now wondering how often I stray off accidentally by eating a bug 😆 I might just have to invent a new type of vegetarian to cover myself!

I was a veggie for a decade, and then more recently I started to grow food. Agriculture, even on a domestic level, is carnage. The amount of dead insect life necessary to get any food yourself can't be understated.

All those years I fondly imagined I harmed no creature, and actually there were invisible corpses all over my cauliflower. Nature's pretty brutal.

Ocado fruit and veg is a nightmare, because they use machines to pack, allegedly. And said machines see no reason they shouldn't pack raspberries and tins in the same bag, or tomatoes with a 2.5 litre bottle of milk, and so on.

I tried growing broccoli once but didn;t know about cabbage white butterflies, so I did not cover it with netting. I produced the most splendid broccoli I had ever seen, covered in little green catapillars. I didn't eat any of it. A) it shows its organic but B) it also shows it was not covered with netting. Slugs get everywhere. Soak the broccoli in very salty water before cooking, not much survives salt!

OMG vegetables grow in the ground!

YABU. I've never found any additional creatures in Ocado broccoli. If I had, though, I would take it as a healthy sign that it hadn't been sprayed to the hilt with poisons. If you are worried, just wash it in salted water. I grow some veg, and this flushes any wee beasties out

Well I'm very cross that I've shopped with Ocado for years and I've never had a bloody bonus item in my broccoli, I buy half a ton of the stuff weekly.

I would rather the occasional slug in my grub than it sprayed with something nasty from Monsanto!

I've never found bugs in broccoli, Ocado or not.
I certainly found worms in the gills of fresh fish so I only cook fillets or frozen fish nowadays!

Do you imagine that vegetables are born, fully formed, in their plastic packaging?

I feel cheated that I have never come across a beastie in my fruit or veg. I only buy tenderstem broccoli do you think that's why? Perhaps bugs don't do long stems.

Is it just broccoli reviews you look at Sabine? Your shopping must take hours! Like a research project

How little must some people have going on in their lives that they feel a need to write a review of Broccoli?

How does that stuff get to the top of anyones to do list?

Quite!

I certainly found worms in the gills of fresh fish

envy
disgust

No need for the sarky responses thank you! I know how vegetables are grown. I just (naively it seems) presumed they would be washed of bugs before arriving at the supermarket. I wash them before cooking but don't expect to see stuff crawling out of them.

And yes, I do read the reviews - for lots of things. It's how I discovered frozen jacket potatos, frozen soffrito and frozen chopped garlic - genius ideas all!

I might just have to invent a new type of vegetarian to cover myself!
An invertebratarian?

I've bought broccoli nearly every week for 10 years from ocado and never seen a bug!

And this is why we have so much waste, people didn't want bugs in their food, even though they're natural. They wanted an apple to look like a picture of an apple, a banana to be perfect so all the so called 'wonky veg' which tastes absolutely no different is rejected and wasted. I couldn't agree more. Food waste is disgraceful in this country.

Once a sad little boiled caterpillar floated to the top of my pan

Are you for real? You do know that broccoli is a vegetable and is grown in the mud, out there in the open air, in the same place you’ll find bugs, slugs and worms ...

Get a grip and just wash your veggies before you use them. There are bigger problems out there.

It’s ok I have a new diet to avoid bugs

science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/breatharian.htm

Seriously though. I know all about how food grows and I’ve chosen to ignore it because I am yet to see a beastie.

You know broccoli grows in the ground right? Where slugs and snails live? You could always remove them yourself....

I agree on the food waste issue. I'm actually really sad that I can't find aubergines 'with noses' for my kids, I used to love them!

My organic veg box broccoli (yeah I know) always needs a careful wash to remove caterpillars. Chop and then rinse the florets, if I just pop the whole head under a tap I still end up with boiled caterpillar. Poor wee things.