Woman shares outrage over popular Woolworths dessert
A woman has voiced her outrage over a popular Woolworths dessert after realising that the vegetable the sweet treat was named after was barely in the product.
The item in question was the retailer’s standard carrot cake.
The dessert has been praised in the past for its moisture, texture and taste.
“Great size. Nice size cake to share when visiting my parents,” is one of the countless rave reviews on the site.
But after one woman decided to go through the ingredients list with a fine-toothed comb, she discovered that carrot was barely present in the formula.
Taking to Woolworths’ Facebook page, the shopper shared her frustrations on the deceptive title and contents of the dessert.
“I recently bought one of your ‘carrot cakes’,” the review stated. “I thought it didn’t taste at all of the carrots and I could only see tiny flecks of orange in it, which might have been carrot-related.”
She then took matters into her own hands and found out just how much carrot is present in the cake.
“I checked the ingredients list and note that it only contains 3 per cent carrot,” she said.
“In a 300g cake, this equates to 9g or about three thin slices of carrot PER CAKE, or half a thin slice of carrot per serve of cake.”
Speaking to the Daily Mail, the supermarket giant defended their item saying it goes through “rigorous customer tasting” and has always satisfied the taste buds of consumers.
Others called out the angry customer, saying her complaint is “pathetic”.
“Make it yourself … I think we all know that there is no nutritional value in a Woolies cake,” said one woman.