Sarah Gonzalez

It was a lentil and leek crumble.

And apparently a bunch of people who had eaten this lentil and leek thing were landing in hospitals.

Super sick.

And Lisa's like texting me frantically, like calling me like, Carol, oh my gosh, this is what happens to you.

Carol calls up her primary care doctor to let her know what they've discovered.

And she's like, unfortunately, I don't think that changes anything.

This like did enough damage that the only solution would have been taking out the gallbladder.

Like it's permanently damaged.

Oh, it was permanently damaged from the lentil and leek crumble.

Yes.

Wow.

as far as they knew it was permanently damaged.

That's crazy that like one food product can permanently damage

An organ.

You're telling me.

And this was not a case of like a bad batch of lentils or anything like that.

There was something sprinkled into the lentils, a brand new food additive or chemical that had never before been used in food in the U.S.

It was being marketed as a brand new superfood, super high in protein from a plant.

It was called terra flower, made from the seed of a terra tree.

It's just...