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“We couldn't eat it”: Woman disgusted by what she found inside Coles’ roast chicken

“We couldn't eat it”: Woman disgusted by what she found inside Coles’ roast chicken

A Sydney woman was disgusted to find green flesh inside her Coles roast chicken.

Kylie Mason, from Lithgow in the NSW Central Tablelands, posted a picture of the suspect-looking hot chook flesh on the supermarket’s Facebook page.

Ms Mason wrote she purchased the chicken for dinner on Tuesday night but “unfortunately, we couldn’t eat it”.

Coles responded to the post explaining why the inside of the chook was coloured green.

“This looks like deep pectoral myopathy (DPM). Deep pectoral myopathy is a green discolouration of the flesh caused by swelling from oxygen deficiency in the muscle,” the supermarket wrote.  

“This can occur if the bird flaps its wings too much.”

Coles added while the green flesh is not harmful to eat, the supermarket said it has has “strict quality standards” and should not have been packaged. It also apologised and offered a refund to Ms Mason. 

Ms Mason later replied the situation has been “rectified”.

In June, a Melbourne woman was also shocked to discover  green flesh in an uncooked chicken purchased from Coles.

This was also a case of deep pectoral myopathy, Coles explained at the time.

Despite the disturbing greenish hue, University of Sydney Associate Professor Peter Groves, from the Poultry Research Foundation, supported Coles’ explanation, saying the green appearance “has nothing to do with salmonella or any other bacteria”. 

“It looks horrible but it is not a food safety issue,” he told Yahoo7 News.

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